1 SimGrid (3.10) NOT RELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Our own implementation of getline is renamed xbt_getline, and gets
5 used even if the OS provide a getline(). This should reduce the
6 configuration complexity by using the same code on all platforms.
9 * Reintegrate Java to the main archive as desynchronizing these
10 package is not acceptable anymore (Java is now considered stable)
11 * Bugfix: Task.setDataSize() only changed the C world, not the value
12 cached in the Java world
15 * SMPI is not built as a separate library anymore, it's now included in
17 * Improvements of the SMPI replay tool:
18 - Most of the collective communications are now rooted in the same process as
19 in the original application.
20 - Traces now rely on the same MPI datatype as the application (MPI_BYTE was
21 used until now). Multiple datatypes can now be used in a trace.
22 - The replay tool now supports traces produce either by TAU or a modified
24 - Bug Fix: the compute part of the reduce action is now taken into account.
26 -- $date Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
28 SimGrid (3.9) stable; urgency=low
30 The Grasgory release: GRAS is really dead now.
32 * Complete overhaul of the internal host structures scheme.
35 * If you use GRAS, you should stay at SimGrid 3.5 (at most) since it
36 was considered as experimental and badly maintained since then.
37 * Keeping it was thus a trap to our potential users, that could take
38 it instead of MSG or SMPI by mistake despite is pity state.
39 * GRAS seems to have very few users (if any), and no one volunteered
40 to maintain it further. It also induces a lot of XBT code (for
41 portability sake), that must be maintained too.
42 * For all these reasons, we killed GRAS. If someone wants to revive it
43 in the future, don't cry, our git history still remembers of GRAS.
46 * Major overhaul. Merge our documentation again as time proved that
47 splitting it was really not helping our users.
48 * Further improve the developer documentation to help newcomers
49 hacking on SimGrid itself. The user documentation (and in
50 particular, the beginner documentation) is still in a sorry state.
53 * Now works on Windows too!
54 * Much more extensive test suite, from MPICH
57 * Add a new loader (SD_PTG_dotload) that creates a parallel task graph
58 (i.e., a DAG whose nodes are parallel tasks) from a dot file. Creates a
59 dynar of SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL and SD_TASK_COMM_MXN_1D_BLOCK tasks.
60 * Bug fix: let task be scheduled when the last dependency to be solved is
62 * Remove SD_load_environment_script function.
63 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
67 * New function: MSG_process_get_number()
68 * Old function documented: MSG_config()
69 * Remove MSG_load_platform_script function
70 Use the C sg_platf function if you want to declare a platform
74 * Change the default value of the TCP_gamma constant (maximal size of TCP
75 congestion window) to a more realistic 4MiB value. If you notice changes in
76 your simulation results, you can fall back to the previous 20k tiny window
77 by adding --cfg=network/TCP_gamma:20000 on command line.
78 * (Hopefully) fix a bug wrt periodic availability and state traces
79 * Bug fix: use default values at start when first event in availability/state
80 trace is not at time 0.
83 * remove the "new_" part of function name sg_platf_new_trace_connect
84 (resulting in sg_platf_trace_connect), since it does not create
88 * Kill synchronized dynars, and xbt_dynar_dopar(). We cannot think of a
89 use case where it's really mandatory, and maintaining it was a pain in
91 * New: xbt_fifo_search(), search an item with a user-provided
92 comparison function instead of dumb pointer comparison.
95 * Fix the lua deployment:
96 Use `simgrid.init_application()` before deployment instead of
97 `simgrid.msg_register_application()` after.
100 * Transfer the tracing files into the corresponding modules.
102 -- Tue Feb 5 11:31:43 CET 2013 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
104 SimGrid (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low
106 The "we are told that some people want to also *install* the simgrid
109 * Add missing file "tesh.1" to the archive.
111 -- Sat Oct 27 16:12:11 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
113 SimGrid (3.8) stable; urgency=low
115 The Psssshiiiit release: SimGrid jumps into the Cloud.
118 * Add an experimental interface to manipulate VMs. They are mainly
119 process groups with very few intrinsic semantic, but they should
120 allow you to build the semantic you want easily.
121 * New function: MSG_host_set_property_value()
122 * New function: MSG_process_on_exit(). To clean memory in all cases.
123 * Bug fixes that made the host (and link) failures unusable.
124 * Add a way to auto-restart process when the host in which they are
125 executing comes back (ON_FAILURE="RESTART" on deployment file,
126 MSG_process_auto_restart_set).
127 * Use the "msg_" prefix for all datatypes (instead of m_, msg_ and MSG_),
128 please stop using the old ones, they are DEPRECATED.
130 * Deprecate functions MSG_global_init() / MSG_global_init_args()
131 Please use MSG_init() instead. (reducing the amount of entry
132 points in the library helps us).
133 * Make it impossible to link against the wrong version of the lib
134 * Deprecate MSG_clean(). No need to call it anymore.
135 * Function MSG_get_host_number() is not deprecated anymore.
138 * Split the doc into a user guide and a reference guide.
139 * Start a developper guide to help people hacking on SimGrid.
142 * Enable tracing by default. This modules rocks you should use it.
143 * Remove option custom_flags. Now use environment variables CFLAGS
145 * Use default cmake things to detect lua instead of home grown ones.
146 * New option "enable_mallocators" to disable mallocators, for debugging
147 purpose ("on" by default).
150 * Bug fixes around the resource failures: don't let the processes
151 survive the host they are running onto.
152 * Add an interface to auto-restart processes when the host in which they are
153 executing comes back.
154 * Ensures that SIMIX_clean is called automatically. It's not part of
155 the public interface anymore (bindings should be updated).
158 * Bug fix for when SD_Simulate is called with a positive value: be careful
159 when comparing doubles. Sometimes they are different for non significant
161 * New types of typed tasks. SD_TASK_COMP_PAR_AMDAHL represents a
162 parallel task whose initial work is distributed among host according
163 to the Amdahl's law. Such tasks are created with a parameter alpha
164 that corresponds to the non-parallelizable part of the computation.
165 SD_TASK_COMM_PAR_MXN_1D_BLOCK represents a complex data redistribution
166 between two sets of workstations assuming a 1D block distribution (each
167 workstation owns a similar share of data) on both sides.
169 These tasks can be scheduled with SD_task_schedulel or SD_task_schedulev.
170 Data redistribution will be automatically scheduled once parent and child
171 are both scheduled. The filling of computation_amount and
172 communication_amount structures is now done seamlessly thanks to the chosen
174 * New function SD_workstation_dump to display various information
175 * New function SD_task_set_rate to throttle the bandwidth allowed to be used
176 by a SD_TASK_COMM_E2E typed task. This rate depends on both the nominal
177 bandwidth on the route onto which the task is scheduled and the amount of
179 To divide the nominal bandwidth by 2, the rate then has to be :
180 rate = bandwidth/(2*amount)
181 * Compute tasks that have failed can now be rescheduled and executed again
182 (from their beginning)
183 * Increasing source code coverage (src/simdag is now covered at 95.8%
187 * Re-implement time-independent trace replay using SMPI (at the
188 smpi_smp_* level) instead of MSG. This should replace
189 examples/msg/actions/actions.c
190 * Implement support of MPI Datatypes (vectors, hvectors, indexed,
191 hindexed and structs)
192 * Implement the exchange of non-contiguous data.
193 [Khalid Hasanov & Jean-Noel Quintin] Thanks for the patch, guys.
194 * Correct behavior of smpi/sender_gap and set its default value to 0
195 * Add option to asynchronously send small messages to allow better
196 simulation of pt2pt communications. --cfg=smpi/async_small_threshold:value
197 specifies the size in bytes under which messages will be asynchronously sent.
198 * Add support of MPI_Iprobe, MPI_Probe, MPI_Testall, MPI_Wtick functions
199 * SMPI now handles more MPI specific values in input. Closes [#14389] and [#14388]
202 * New C interface to define a platform: XML is now optional.
203 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf.h.
204 * New interface to define random platforms from the C:
205 For more info, please check include/simgrid/platf_generator.h and
206 examples/msg/masterslave/masterslave_platfgen.c
207 * Export a sg_cmdline dynar containing all the arguments we got from
211 * Two new tracing options for adding comments to trace file so you
212 can track your experiments (see --help-tracing for details).
213 * New option to generate a impoverished trace file (--cfg=tracing/basic:1)
214 * Adding the SimGrid version that generated the trace file as a comment.
215 * Instrumenting other MSG functions (MSG_task_isend_with_matching and MSG_task_dsend)
216 * Fix to avoid key clashes on Paje links
217 * Other minor fixes related to the Paje specification
220 * Functions xbt_dict_hash() and xbt_dict_hash_ext() are made public,
221 and renamed to xbt_str_hash() and xbt_str_hash_ext().
222 * New function: xbt_os_timer_resume() to restart a timer w/o resetting it.
223 * Greatly improve the robustness of mmalloc to user errors (such as
224 using an area after freeing it, or freeing it twice)
226 -- Thu Oct 25 17:30:06 CEST 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
228 SimGrid (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low
231 * Restore the prototype of MSG_process_create_with_environment() to
232 the pre-3.7 situation by removing the kill_time argument.
233 * Add a MSG_process_set_kill_time() function instead.
236 * Fix weird behaviors when dealing with parallel tasks.
239 * Simgrid is now built as a dll.
240 * Simgrid-java now works on Windows.
241 * Simgrid-Java is now included into Windows package.
244 * First pre-build package for MacOSX.
247 * Fix compilation when using MSG_USE_DEPRECATED.
248 * Fix some compilation issues on Macs and Windows.
249 * Reduce the number of failing tests on exotic systems, like Debian/Hurd.
250 * Environment variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are now honored by cmake.
252 We discovered that the Lua console is broken, but we are missing the
253 manpower to fix it right now. The problem existed in 3.7 too, so we
254 are not blocking the release for that. Sorry if you depended on this
255 feature, any help would be really welcome.
257 -- Thu Jun 7 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
259 SimGrid (3.7) stable; urgency=low
261 The "spring cleanups (before the next Big Project kicks in)" release.
264 * We can specify the SMPI latency/bandwidth factor with command line
265 add --cfg=smpi/bw_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
266 or add --cfg=smpi/lat_factor:"threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"
267 You can also use the "config tag" from platform file by adding this line
268 <prop id="smpi/bw_factor" value="threshold0:value0;...;thresholdN:valueN"></prop>
269 (see "example/platforms/tag_config.xml" to use "config tag").
270 Note that the command line supersedes the platform file configuration.
271 * Change the correction factors used in LMM model, according to
272 the latest experiments described in INRIA RR-7821.
273 Accuracy should be improved this way.
274 * Use the partial invalidation optimization by default for the
275 network too. Should produce the exact same results, only faster.
276 * Major cleanup in surf to merge models and split some optimization
277 mechanisms from the core of the models. As a result you can now
278 specify which model to use (e.g., --cfg=network/model:LV08
279 --cfg=cpu/model:Cas01) and which optimization mode to use
280 (e.g., --cfg=network/optim:lazy --cfg=cpu/optim:TI).
281 Incompatible combinations should err at initialization. See
282 --help-models for the list of all models and optimization modes.
283 * The CLM03 workstation model was dropped for simplicity because it
284 used the deprecated CM02 network model. Use default instead.
285 * Rename the TCP_gamma configuration option to network/TCP_gamma
286 * Rename the coordinates configuration option to
287 network/coordinates, and document it
288 * Use now crosstraffic keyword instead of the terribly misleading
289 fullduplex keyword. It is activated by default now in the current
290 default model, use --cfg=network/crosstraffic:0 to turn it off.
291 * Ongoing refactoring the model parsing to make XML files optional
292 See include/simgrid/platf.h for details (still to be completed)
295 * Major overhaul of the documentation. Almost instructive now :/
296 * Deprecate the use of m_channel_t mechanism like MSG_task_{get,put}
297 functions and friends. This interface was considered as
298 deprecated since over 2 years, it's time to inform our users that it is.
299 Switch to MSG_task_{send,recv} instead, or compile SimGrid command line
300 'cmake -Dcustom_flags="-DMSG_USE_DEPRECATED" .' if you really need to
301 use these (crappy) functions in your code.
302 These functions will be removed soon. Stop using them now.
303 * Deprecate MSG_get_host_{table,number}
304 Implement MSG_hosts_as_dynar() instead.
305 * Implement MSG_processes_as_dynar() (Closes gforge #13642)
306 * Remove the public field msg_host_t->name. Use MSG_host_get_name()
309 * Stabilize the parallel execution mode of user contexts
310 * Introduce configuration variables to control parallel execution:
311 - contexts/synchro: Synchronization mode to use when running
312 contexts in parallel (either futex, posix or busy_wait)
313 - contexts/parallel_threshold: Minimal number of user contexts
314 that must be part of a scheduling round to switch to parallel
315 execution mode (raw contexts only)
316 * Fix bugs that prevented to use suspend/resume along with
317 synchronization structures.
318 * Fix bugs in process termination that lead to invalid memory access
319 in very specific conditions.
322 * Introduce a parallel mode for the models (controlled by surf/nthreads
323 configuration item). In our tests, running the models in parallel
324 never lead to any speedups because they are so fast that the gain
325 of computing each model in parallel does not amortizes the
326 synchronization costs, even when ultra fast futexes are used.
327 This is released anyway because YMMV.
330 * Performance boost by using a swag internally to compute the set of
331 tasks that are finished and should constitute the return value of
335 * Enable it by default now that it is considered rather stable.
338 * Documentation of the tracing functions.
339 * Performance gains when tracing categorized/uncategorized resource
340 utilization by avoiding calls to get route when updating resource
341 variables. LMM constraints are being used instead.
342 * API changed to set task categories. Use MSG_task_set_category instead
343 of TRACE_msg_set_task_category, and SD_task_set_category instead
344 of TRACE_sd_set_task_category. They only work if ENABLE_TRACING is ON.
345 * Bugfix for graphicator, routes not correctly obtained, memory leaks
346 * Examples for link user variables added (see at examples/msg/tracing/)
347 * Deprecated function TRACE_msg_set_process_category completely removed
348 * Trace header updated according to the latest Paje file format
349 * Tracing network lazy updates, no longer obligate users to use full updates
350 * --cfg=tracing/platform:1 also registers power/bandwidth variables
351 * Experimental: let user code declare/set/push/pop application states for hosts
352 * API changed to allow the manual creation of graph configuration files
353 for Triva. See TRACE_get_node_types() and TRACE_get_edge_types().
356 * Improve the API of Lua MSG bindings, using the Lua spirit.
357 * Each simulated process now lives in its own Lua world (globals are
358 automatically duplicated). It helps writing simulators. Will allow
359 to run Splay programs within SimGrid in the future.
360 * Add a Chord example in Lua, equivalent to the MSG one.
363 * Start the implementation of a solution to express temporal
364 properties, not only local assertions. This is still an
365 experimental work in progress, stay clear from it to be safe.
369 - Add new runtime parameters --help-logs and --help-log-categories
370 to display informations about supported logging parameters and
372 - Old deprecated parameters --{gras,surf,msg,simix,xbt}-log=...
373 don't exists anymore.
374 * Mallocators: allow value NULL for the reset function.
376 - New function xbt_dict_new_homogeneous(void(*)(void*)) to
377 create homogeneous dictionaries, where all the elements share the
378 same free function. Non homogeneous dictionaries will be
379 deprecated in the next release.
380 - Dicts of scalar elements (xbt_dicti_*) are deprecated.
381 - Multi-level dictionaries are deprecated.
383 - new function xbt_dynar_search_or_negative() that is useful when
384 you have less than 2 million elements in your dynar and don't
385 want of the extra complexity of catching exceptions when the
386 element is not found.
388 - Make xbt_os_thread module (for thread portability) public.
389 Documentation is still to come, sorry.
391 - Cleanups and simplifications to make it maintainable again.
392 - Exotic features (such as memalign and valloc) were removed.
393 - The metadata were extended and improved so that the
394 model-checker becomes able to explore and inspect the heaps.
395 - This may induce a performance drop when enable_model-checking is
396 ON in cmake (even if it's not used in the simulation), but it is
397 necessary at this point to get MC working.
399 Turn model-checking OFF if simulation performance matters to you.
400 Not enabling it at runtime is not enough, disable it in cmake.
402 -- Tue May 15 11:30:19 UTC 2012 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
404 SimGrid (3.6.2) stable; urgency=low
406 The "Not coding new stuff allows to polish old things" release.
409 * New bindings to the NS3 packet level simulator (experimental)
410 * Use the raw (efficient) execution contexts instead of the sysv
411 (portable) ones when possible.
412 * libpcre is now mandatory in any cases since not using it led to
413 severe performance loss and possibly other issues
414 * Update the XML platforms:
415 - G5K: include the latest machine in Nancy
416 - GridPP and LCG: new platforms
417 * Documentation was partially updated, at least (more to come)
419 Bug fixes, cosmetics and small improvements
420 * Free terminated processes before the end of the simulation to avoid
421 exhausting the memory of users having very dynamic amount of
423 * Bug fix and cosmetics about canceling non-running tasks
424 * Bug fix about the dot loader's issues when using libcgraph
427 * Create an installer for windows with nsis (amd64 and win32)
428 - Add an hello world project to illustrate simgrid project creation.
429 - Embed libpcre into the Simgrid installer to avoid
430 its compilation burden
431 * The raw execution contexts should work on Apple now
432 * Port to Windows 64 bits
433 - Sysv contexts now have an implementation for this arch
434 - GRAS communication features now support this arch
435 * Drop support for borland compiler on windows
436 - this code was not maintained, and we kinda depend on gcc nowadays
437 * Fix portability issues on kfreebsd/gnu: build error about semaphores
438 * Fix portability issue on unstable ubuntu: linker became picky on
441 -- Wed Oct 5 15:51:01 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
443 SimGrid (3.6.1) stable; urgency=low
445 The "Oops, we broke Macs too" release
448 * Fixed contexts detection so that raw ones are used when possible
449 * On Mac, do not use Posix Ucontexts with gcc v4.[1-5] since this
450 leads to a strange error, with user code segfaulting sometimes when
451 the generated code is not perfectly aligned (which is not
452 controllable from the user side, depends on the amount of code)
455 * New macro: CATCH_ANONYMOUS, which is like CATCH(e) but without argument.
457 -- Mon Jun 27 13:59:03 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
459 SimGrid (3.6) stable; urgency=medium
461 The Summer Release, also known as the "OMG! They Killed Kenny!" version
464 * Bindings now constitute their own package, separated from the main one.
465 Rationale: reduce our maintenance nightmare by reducing the module coupling
466 They will soon be released on their own on gforge.
468 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-java
469 svn co svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/contrib/trunk/simgrid-ruby
471 GRAS: It is not considered as stable anymore, but experimental. Sorry.
472 * It's not quite deprecated for now because we have no replacement,
473 but it may soon become the case.
476 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Comm_disconnect, MPI_Comm_get_name
477 * Fortran: New user-level cache variable to store the rank of the running
478 process. This improves performance by an order of magnitude.
479 * C: New coccinelle script to automatically locate and modify global and
480 local static variables.
481 * Improved SMPI network model with a sender-side gap to account for multiple
485 * New function MSG_comm_get_status(). MSG_comm_test() and MSG_comm_testany()
486 only say if a communication is finished, no matter whether it succeeded or
487 failed. You can call MSG_comm_get_status() to know the status of a finished
489 * New function MSG_task_dsend() to send a task and detach it. When a
490 communication is detached, you are never notified of its success or failure
491 and the memory is released automatically once it is finished. This function
492 is useful when you don't care about the end nor the success of a
494 * Change the prototypes of action replay. Sorry for inconvenience,
495 but this is really more efficient this way (and to adapt your code,
496 you just have to fix the initialization, that shouldn't be too long)
497 * Kill the braindead MSG_task_refcount_dec() function. I guess nobody
498 ever managed to do anything useful with it.
499 * New function MSG_comm_testany(). Similarly to MSG_comm_waitany(), it
500 takes a dynar of communications. It returns immediately and gives the
501 index of a finished communication (if any).
502 * New example: a basic implementation of the Chord P2P algorithm.
505 * New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to
506 precise the number of cores of a host. This is a basic model. Every
507 process running on the host receives at most the power provided in
508 the DTD (throughput<=power). Total throughput of process cannot exceed
510 * New peer tag. This peer tag creates a tiny AS comprising a host and a
511 router linked by an up-link and a down-link (possibly asymmetrical).
512 This kind of pattern allows to easily build last-mile model style platforms.
513 Aggregating such patterns in a rule-based AS is thus the technique of
514 choice for modeling large peer-to-peer/volunteer computing/cloud platforms.
515 * New model for Vivaldi routing. We transformed the Vivaldi network model
516 into a Vivaldi routing model (based on the rule-based model). This allows to
517 combine Vivaldi based latencies with last-mile platforms.
520 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
522 * Introduce a new context factory "raw", highly inspirated from the
523 ucontext factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to
524 do the work in an efficient manner.
525 * Allow to change the used context factory at run time, not only at
526 compilation time. Use --cfg=contexts/factory:raw for maximal speed.
527 * Add an option --cfg=contexts/stacksize:N to set the stack size of the user
528 contexts at runtime (only with raw contexts or ucontexts).
529 * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution of user
530 processes. Use --cfg=contexts/nthreads:N to execute user processes
531 with N parallel threads (the default is 1, meaning no parallelism).
532 * Allow to decide dynamically between sequential and parallel modes.
533 When nthreads > 1, you can use --cfg=contexts/threshold:P to run the user
534 processes in parallel only when their number is greater than or equal to P
536 * Added a check for NaN of IEEE754 infinite in the double entries of
540 * New command line option: if you pass --cfg=verbose-exit:0, SimGrid
541 won't output the state of processes when interrupted with Ctrl-C
542 * Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a
543 NULL-terminated array. This may solve backward compatibility issues
544 due to the change to return type of SD_simulate. See also:
545 http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/simgrid-user/2010-December/002206.html
546 * Add new macros with variable number of arguments.
547 - in xbt/log.h: XBT_DEBUG, XBT_VERB, XBT_INFO, etc.
548 - in xbt/asserts.h: xbt_assert
549 - in xbt/cunit.h: xbt_test_{add,fail,assert,log}
550 - in xbt/ex.h: THROWF and RETHROWF.
551 Define XBT_USE_DEPRECATED if you want to use the old numbered macros like
553 * Change xbt_die() to accept a format string with arguments, just like printf.
554 * New data structure: xbt_lib_t, like a dict but more general and with better
558 * New configuration options
559 Options triva/categorized and triva/uncategorized can be used to generate
560 graph configuration files for Triva visualization tool.
561 * Configuration option tracing/platform is renamed to tracing/categorized
562 * XBT logging makes tracing error checks easier, new root log hierarchy: instr
563 * New TRACE_user_link_variable interface:
564 User provides the name of the link and the tracing variable to attach to it
565 * the declaration of tracing categories must be done after the environment
567 * simpler tracing interface, just one way to declare categories
568 TRACE_category or TRACE_category_with_color, it is up to you
569 * links in the trace file are again identified by their names
570 * trace contains the full platform hierarchy exactly as declared using the ASes
571 * Options tracing/msg/[task|process]:1 groups the process by hosts
572 for both cases, tasks and processes must have names that are unique during the simulation
573 these options generate traces that are suited to gantt-charts, such as the space-time view of Paje
574 * The experimental option tracing/msg/volume is deprecated
575 its functionality may be reincorporated if needed
577 The tracing generates a trace file with unordered timestamped events,
578 because of the way the core simulator (surf) works. A script available
579 at the tools directory (fix-paje-trace.sh) can be used to put the events
580 in order. We have changed the tracing so it can generate ordered timestamped
581 events in the final trace, but depending on the simulator (and how much time
582 is simulated) that can lead to a huge memory utilization. It is deactivated
583 by default, but it can be activated using the --cfg=tracing/buffer:1 switch.
586 * Define a SIMGRID_VERSION macro in simgrid_config.h.
587 - We are trying hard to keep the API stable, but it may happen that
588 some things change (we're a research project after all, not a
589 nuclear plant operating system). If such things should happen, you
590 could rely on that macro to adapt.
591 - current value: 30600 for 3.06.00, aka 3.6
592 * Define macro MAKE_SIMGRID_VERSION(major, minor, patch) to help building
593 a number that can be compared with SIMGRID_VERSION.
594 * Add a build option -Denable_debug (set to ON by default): when set to OFF,
595 assertions and verbose/debug logging events are disabled at compile time.
597 -- Tue Jun 21 08:57:43 CEST 2011 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
599 SimGrid (3.5) stable; urgency=medium
602 * New feature to any SimGrid-based simulator: Model-Checking
603 Check SIN#1 for more details.
606 * New Model SMPI (three-interval linear regression for correction factors)
607 See RR-7426, available at http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00527150
608 * Ability to use FORTRAN MPI code (through f2c, automatically privatized)
609 * New MPI functions supported: MPI_Get_count(), MPI_Comm_split()
610 * New: RAM folding (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/DT-folding)
611 * New: execution sampling (see RR-7426 and examples/smpi/NAS/EP-sampling)
612 * See also src/smpi/README
617 - Tracing API changes: TRACE_start and TRACE_end should not be called
618 by user-code. They are automatically called by simulators created
619 with SimDAG, MSG and SMPI if the toolkit is compiled with
620 tracing_enabled=ON. Categories declaration and utilization remain the
621 same for MSG and SimDag.
622 - A function was added to the tracing API to declare categories with
624 - TRACE_category_with_color (char *category, char *color)
625 where color must be in the following format
626 "%f %f %f", red, green, blue
627 and red, green, blue are float values in the interval [0, 1]
628 - User can specify NULL as color parameter, or continue calling
630 On that case, the tracing system will define random colors
631 - The following command-line options are supported:
632 --cfg=tracing/filename:msg.trace
633 --cfg=tracing:1 (activate tracing, needed to use others)
634 --cfg=tracing/platform:1 (categorized resource use)
635 --cfg=tracing/uncategorized:1 (uncategorized resource use)
636 --cfg=tracing/msg/task:1 (task creation)
637 --cfg=tracing/msg/process:1 (process creation, migration)
638 --cfg=tracing/msg/volume:1 (volume of MSG send/recv)
639 --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 (SMPI interface tracing)
640 --cfg=tracing/simdag:1 (allow SimDAG tasks receive categories)
641 - examples of examples/msg/tracing updated
643 - DAXLoader and DOTLoader functions can generate tasks with categories
644 - A new function to attribute a category to SD tasks:
645 TRACE_sd_set_task_category (SD_task_t task, char *category)
646 * Tracing the MPI interface implemented by SMPI
647 - Collective operations are traced with states
648 - Point-to-Point operations are traced with states/links
649 - Tracing activated by a parameter "-trace filename" passed
650 to smpirun during execution (considering that simgrid
651 is compiled with tracing enabled)
652 - To run the simulation with gdb, the simulator
653 accepts --cfg=tracing/smpi:1 to trace SMPI
654 - tesh files to check if smpi tracing is ok
655 - See examples/smpi/NAS/DT-trace
656 * GTNetS tracing re-worked
657 - adaptation to the tracing system of GTNets to cope
658 with modifications regarding the fullduplex mode
659 - new tesh files to check if gtnets tracing is ok
662 * Asynchronous communications through the functions:
663 MSG_task_isend/irecv and MSG_comm_test/wait/waitall
664 * New function: MSG_load_platform_script()
665 to make possible using a lua script instead of XML files to set up platforms
666 * New function: MSG_set_function
667 to associate functions to processes, used when bypassing the parser
668 * New functions: MSG_task_set_name(), MSG_task_set_compute_duration()
670 Platforms: Add some more examples in examples/platforms
671 * Grid'5000: see www.grid5000.fr
672 * *_30000_hosts.xml: various huge files [mainly scalability testing]
675 * Change the XML format. This is a very important modification. SimGrid
676 3.5 introduces a new hierarchical format based on the notion of
677 Autonomous Systems. Compatibility with old format is ensured
678 through the perl script provided in the install bin directory
679 bin/simgrid_update_xml.
680 It is now possible to build platforms with specific routing
681 mechanism (Full/Dijkstra/DijkstraCache/Floyd) and to easily
682 connect several platforms together. We will try to provide soon
683 set of realistic platforms exploiting these properties (have a
684 look at examples/platforms/ for the moment).
685 * Take the opportunity of the XML format change to be a good XML citizen:
686 rename link:ctn to link_ctn and similar changes (also dealt with by
688 * Add a new routing scheme (rule-based) using regular expressions. It
689 enables to have an extremely low memory footprint when the
690 underlying routing is simple and can be compactly described. You
691 need to have libpcre4-dev (perl regular expressions) installed if
692 you want to use this routing scheme.
693 * Revive the cluster TAG and allow to easily and efficiently (both in
694 term of memory and speed) connect clusters together. Have a look
695 at teshsuite/simdag/platforms/ to see how this can be done. With
696 this tag, you can create clusters with thousands of tasks at no
697 cost (have a look at examples/platforms/).
698 Note: clusters are implemented as ASes, so there is no need for an
699 enclosing AS tag if you have only one cluster in your platform.
700 * Add new generic functions in the public interface that allows the user
701 to call SURF 'create_resource' methods from your code (same
702 functionality as the XML bypass mechanism but with a much lighter
704 * Add a new model (enabled through command line --cfg=network/model:SMPI)
705 that uses a piecewise linear approximation to produce better
706 results when exchanging small messages.
707 * Add a new parameter to handle correctly full duplex link and account
708 for interferences between uplink and downlink communications
709 (activate with --cfg=fullduplex:1).
712 * Rename the SD_READY (all dependencies are satisfied and task is
713 scheduled) state in SD_RUNNABLE and define a new SD_SCHEDULABLE (all
714 dependencies are satisfied) state.
715 This prevents a confusion between the notion of "ready to schedule"
716 (SD_SCHEDULABLE) used in DAG scheduling and that of "ready to be
717 simulated" (SD_RUNNABLE) used by the simulation kernel.
718 * Change the way a task is considered as ready. Instead of removing
719 dependencies when a task is done, a counter is decreased. This way,
720 it is always possible to reach ancestors thanks to the
721 SD_taks_get_parents function (even after the end of the simulation.)
722 * Change the return type of SD_Simulate from (SD_task_t*) into
723 xbt_dynar_t. This function was in handling a dynar internally and
724 converted it into a NULL terminated array for historical reasons.
725 * New function SD_dotload(char*) to load a DAG described in dot
726 format. This loader and the corresponding examples require the
727 installation of the graphviz library.
728 * Fix a bug in the management of tasks of size 0 in the surf network
729 models. This problem was only visible with SIMDAG and you should
730 thus disregard results produced with earlier versions if you
731 relied on this feature (some tasks were blocked because of this).
732 * Fix a bunch of stuff that prevented to use classical models with SIMDAG
733 even though your applications were doing only point-to-point
734 communications and sequential computations. Now you can really use any
735 model you want (of course, if you create real parallel tasks, which are
736 not implemented in most models beside ptaskL07, this will abort).
737 * Add an example that schedules a DAX on an heterogeneous platform
738 using a Min-Min strategy.
739 * New function SD_workstation_get_current_task() that returns the kind
740 of task currently running on a workstation in the sequential access
742 * Raise some warnings when unexecuted tasks remains at the end of the
743 simulation. This is usually caused by cycles in the DAG.
746 * New function: SIMIX_process_set_function() called by MSG_set_function
747 * Change the underlying waiting queue in semaphores so that a process
748 can wait on several of them simultaneously (as in waitany).
749 * Fix the way to handle tokens in semaphores so that all access patterns
750 work: {acquire, acquire_timeout, waitany} / {release, release_forever}.
751 * kill the dirty pimple SIMIX_message_sizes_output()
752 Please use (proper) visualization instead
755 * New data container: setset (set of sets of elements)
756 * New module: mmalloc (mapped malloc, allowing to have several
757 independent segments of malloc)
758 * New function: xbt_dict_cursor_set_data()
759 * New functions: xbt_dynar_sort(), xbt_dynar_compare()
760 * New function: xbt_dynar_is_empty()
761 * New function: xbt_fifo_get_last_item()
762 * Fix xbt_dynar_shrink(): use the right element size.
763 * Fix xbt_dynar_set*(): allow index larger than current size and memset 0
764 uninitialized areas during expand.
765 * Fix semaphores: previous implementation was severely broken.
766 * Use library init/fini functions for our initialization.
767 - you can use logs and other feature as soon as you want in your
768 code (even before the xbt_init / MSG_init)
769 - xbt_exit is now a no-op and produce a warning when used.
772 * Port GRAS to new SIMIX mechanisms. This allows gras users to
773 benefit from the latest improvement to the simulation kernel.
774 * Kill measurement sockets for now. If you rely on them, sorry. This
775 release is not for you. This feature will be reintroduced in the
776 future, but we cannot delay the release any further.
777 * New function: gras_msgtype_get_name().
778 * Implement gras_agent_spawn in RL too (the prototype changed a bit)
779 * Fix (at last) the pmm example: it should not randomly fail anymore.
781 Build chain: bug fixes and overall polishing
782 * Cmake is now stable enough. Hence, we killed the autotools.
783 * Port to windows ( TM :)
784 * Fix the 'make install' target.
785 No need to use 'make install-simgrid' anymore
786 * Introduce a 'make dist' target compiling a *source* archive
787 'make package' compiles a binary archive
788 * Compile java files only on need
789 * Add --cd and --setenv command line options to tesh
790 * Out of source builds are not fully supported yet, but we are close
791 * Enable supernovae and optimization flags by default for our users
794 * Add layer to set up environment directly from lua, without XML.
795 * The effect of gras_stub_generator can be achieved through
796 lua too (check examples/gras/console/ping_generator.lua)
798 -- Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:09:23 +0100 Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
800 SimGrid (3.4.1) stable; urgency=low
802 The "Polishing easter eggs is probably a good idea" release.
803 This is a bug fixes release only.
807 * Fix a bug preventing the tasks from begin garbage collected.
810 * Fix a bug occuring when a host involved in a communication fails.
811 This was not detected properly by the other peer involved in the
812 communication. Now, it's reported as a network error.
815 * Warn the user about loop dependencies in data flow of DAX files
816 * Obey the control-flow dependencies of DAX files
819 * Add option "enable_smpi" allowing to not compile SMPI.
820 Probably useful for the (Mac) users experiencing a build error here
821 * Improve the detection of lua5.1 and ruby1.8
823 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Tus, 04 May 2010 28 16:11:16 +0100
825 SimGrid (3.4) stable; urgency=low
827 The "Easter in Cargese" release. Also known as (major changes):
829 * the "se habla Java, Ruby 話せます, fala-se Lua (and deaf-friendly)"
830 ~> bindings were greatly improved
831 ~> new tracing infrastructure for better visualization introduced
833 * the "Welcome to configury modernity" release.
834 ~> we switched from autotools to cmake, and improved our cdash
837 A more detailled list of changes follow (full detail in svn log).
839 Java Bindings: Various Cleanups
840 * (install java-gcj-compat-dev on debian-like to use them)
841 * Remove put/get: no need to export deprecated interface in Java
842 Use send/receive instead.
843 * Cleanup the examples and add a README per directory
844 * Remove example autoDestination (that's the only way to go now)
845 * Remove example explicitDestination (was a plain copy of basic)
846 * Make JniException a runtime exception, so that there is no need to
847 declare the fact that you may encounter such a beast. I guess that
848 nobody will ever want to survive such error.
849 * Create specific errors for each MSG case of failure:
850 host failure, transfer failure, timeout, task cancelled
851 * Cleanup the exceptions that may get thrown by each function
852 * Other internal cleanups in Java bindings. Performance still bad :/
853 Ruby and Lua Bindings: create them
854 * (install ruby1.8-dev/liblua5.1-0-dev on debian-like to use them)
855 * That's new and great, you should try them out.
856 Same functionalities than Java bindings, only even less polished
858 * Kill the useless "rate" argument of SD_task_get_execution_time()
859 Everyone used to provide -1 as a value, it was not used, and the
860 semantic of a possible use wasn't even clear.
861 * SD_SCHED_NO_COST: Constant to use as cost in SD_task_schedule()
862 either as comm costs or compute costs to mean that there is no
863 such thing for that specific task.
864 * Add a SD_task_set_name() function
865 * Fix SD_task_unschedule() on typed tasks
866 * Fix SD_task_get_execution_time() to return seconds, not flop*sec
867 * In DAX loader, accept useless 'level' attributes to <job> since
868 LIGO DAGs have them (seem to be to ease graphical representation).
870 * Add an example masterslave_mailbox.c using send/receive and not
871 the deprecated put/get interface.
872 * Kill the MSG_paje_output() function. It's a noop since 2 years.
873 * Kill MSG_WARNING and MSG_FATAL return codes: they were not used
875 * Rename MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE into MSG_TIMEOUT for sake of logic
876 (declare MSG_USE_DEPRECATED to still have the old name)
877 * Add a MSG_task_set_data() function
878 * About trace replay (see examples/msg/actions):
880 - Allow to work with splitted trace files for each process
881 Give the specific trace file as argument of each process,
882 and call MSG_action_trace_run(NULL)
883 You can still have one merged file for all processes.
884 - Fix implementation of collective operations
885 * Allow task_execute() on 0-sized tasks (closes #10063)
887 * This is the first release of SimGrid where SMPI is not considered
888 beta anymore (even if some corners should still be improved)
889 * Port over the new SIMIX_network submodule (internal refactoring)
890 * Basic support to log events as with SMPE (use --cfg=SMPE:1)
891 * Implement more missing elements of the standard:
893 - MPI_MAXLOC MPI_MINLOC + all associated datatype MPI_DOUBLE_INT,
895 - MPI_Address() MPI_Get_count() MPI_Type_free() MPI_Type_extent()
896 MPI_Scan() MPI_Get_processor_name()
897 - Added implementation of missing case for Alltoall (warning: it's
898 *not* the bruck variant from OpenMPI; based on Alltoallv instead)
899 - SMPI_MPI_Gather() SMPI_MPI_Gatherv() SMPI_MPI_Scatterv()
900 SMPI_MPI_Reduce_scatter() SMPI_MPI_Allgather()
901 SMPI_MPI_Allgatherv()
903 - MPI_Waitsome() was broken
904 - Allow relative includes in smpicc
905 - Command line cfg argument 'reference_speed' was ignored...
906 - Some functions did not properly lead to auto-benching of user code
907 - smpicc passes -O2 by default (just like openmpi one)
909 * add SIMIX_action_suspend() and SIMIX_action_resume() functions
910 * Bug fixes about timeouts during communications
911 * add SIMIX_message_sizes_output() as a pimple to write to file the
912 amount of messages per size. Use gnuplot to get histogram.
913 Pimple because that's the only user-visible function of simix,
914 defined directly in xbt.h (irk, sorry)
916 - Add a SIMIX_sem_get_capacity() function
917 - Fix interactions with processe resume/suspende
918 - release_forever() was stupidly broken
919 - Fix SIMIX_display_process_status() for processes in a semaphore
920 - Make SIMIX_sem_block_onto() user-visible
921 * Refactoring context stuff:
922 - Use pseudo-OOP for better modularity
923 - reimplement SIMIX_process_kill() without process_schedule() so
924 that the latter can take as invariant that it is called from
926 - Merge context_start into context_new for sake of simplicity
928 * Add a Vivaldi network model, coded live during SUD'10 ;)
929 * Rename configuration variables to start a hierarchy:
930 o cpu_model -> cpu/model
931 o network_model -> network/model
932 o workstation_model -> workstation/model
933 * New configuration variables:
934 o network/bandwidth_factor: correction to bandwith
935 o network/latency_factor: correction to latency
936 o netwotk/weight_S: correction to the weight of competing streams
937 * Add a long description to the models, that users can see with such
938 argument on the command line: --cfg=cpu/model:help
939 * --help-models display the long description of all known models
941 * config: add the ability to set a default value after registration
942 Does not override any previously set value (e.g. from cmd line)
943 * dict: allow to have integer key and data.
944 When so, you need to use the following functions
945 void xbt_dicti_set(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key, uintptr_t data);
946 uintptr_t xbt_dicti_get(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
947 void xbt_dicti_remove(xbt_dict_t dict, uintptr_t key);
948 In contrary to regular dicts, the key is not malloced before copy.
949 Mixing scalar and regular elements in the same dict is not tested
951 * Allow to use xbt_dynar_shrink() to expend the dynar instead
952 Tracing for Visualization:
953 * SimGrid is now instrumented in order to generate a trace file for
954 visualization analysis: to use it, need to compile SimGrid with the
955 "tracing" option enabled, and instrument the program using SimGrid with
956 TRACE_start, TRACE_category, TRACE_msg_set_task_category and TRACE_end
957 (among other functions).
958 * The instrumentation only traces the platform utilization for now
959 * Documentation to use the tracing functions and how to analyze the
960 traces with the Triva tool is written.
961 * More information about: SimGrid FAQ (in the section Tracing Simulations
964 * We moved to cmake as default build system. Autotools support will
965 be dropped soon. Check the FAQ for more info about how to use it.
966 * Greatly improved our cdash/ctest interactions
967 Check http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
968 * Added memory checking tests with valgrind; lot of memleak fixing.
969 This may be the first release of simgrid with so few memory issues
970 * Added code coverage tests.
971 Our coverage is still improvable, but at least we see it on cdash.
973 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 28 17:11:16 +0100
975 SimGrid (3.3.4) stable; urgency=low
977 The "Desktop Grid needs love too" release (also called Xmas release).
980 * Major speedup in the maxmin system solving by using lazy evaluation
981 Instead of solving completely the maxmin system at each iteration,
982 only invalidate (and recompute) the modified parts.
983 This new feature is enabled in default models but you can try to
984 turn it on with "--cfg:maxmin-selective-update=1" for other models.
985 * Cas01 IMproved as default CPU model
986 This CPU model is the same Cas01 model, but it uses the
987 maxmin-selective-update flag and a heap structure to manage
988 actions on SURF kernel.
989 It reduces the complexity to find the next action to finish and,
990 consequently, it's faster than the old Cas01.
991 This is the new default CPU model (Cas01).
992 * Rename the old Cas01 model to Cas01_fullupdate
993 Keep the old cpu model Cas01 with the new name of Cas01_fullupdate.
994 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:Cas01_fullupdate" to use the old default CPU model.
995 * CpuTI (CPU Trace Integration)
996 A new CPU model whose objective is simulate faster when using
997 availability trace files.
998 Instead of using a full featured, over engineered maxmin system for
999 CPU modeling, this model does the pre-integration of traces files
1000 to calculate the amount of CPU power available, and so, executes
1001 faster than the old CPU models.
1002 Use "--cfg=cpu_model:CpuTI" to change to this CPU model.
1003 * Use LV08 as default network model since it gives better accuracy
1004 for small messages and shouldn't change things for big ones.
1005 Use --cfg=network_model:CM02 to get the previous behavior.
1008 ******************************************
1009 *DO NOT MIX 3.3.4 RESULTS WITH OLDER ONES*
1010 ******************************************
1011 * The new CPU model may changes simulations!
1012 The point is that events occurring at the exact same timestamp
1013 are not scheduled in the same order with the old and new
1014 version. This may be enough to completely change the execution
1015 of simulations in some cases.
1016 * The new network model will change simulations!
1017 This new model is more realistic than the previous one, so you
1018 should consider redoing your old experiments with this model.
1019 Sorry for the inconvenience.
1022 * Introduce the supernovae compilation mode
1023 When compiled that way, the whole SimGrid (or almost) is put in a
1024 single compilation unit and compiled in one shoot.
1025 This is to help gcc which has difficulties to inline stuff from one
1027 The speedup seem to be above 15%, althrough more tests are needed on
1028 amd64 to confirm that gain.
1031 * Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
1032 The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
1035 * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
1036 - Mailbox: rendez-vous mecanism to find with who you want to speak
1037 - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
1038 logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
1039 - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
1040 Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
1041 * Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
1044 * new function SD_daxload(char*) to load a DAX file
1045 (see http://vtcpc.isi.edu/pegasus/index.php/WorkflowGenerator)
1046 * Introduce typed tasks. Specify its kind and cost at creation.
1047 At scheduling, just give where it should be placed, and the cost
1048 for each involved resource is automatically computed.
1049 Existing constructors so far (more to come of course):
1050 - SD_task_create_comm_e2e() for end-to-end communication
1051 - SD_task_create_comp_seq() for sequential computation
1052 Use SD_task_schedulev() / SD_task_schedulel() to schedule them.
1053 * new function SD_task_dump() for debuging display
1054 * new function SD_task_dotty(task,FILE*) writing to file the info
1055 about the task in dotty format
1056 * SD_task_dependency_exists() can now cope with having one of its
1057 arguments NULL. If so, it tests whether the other argument has any
1059 * Add getters on list of preceding/following tasks:
1060 SD_task_get_parents(task) and SD_task_get_children(task)
1061 * Add getters on amount of workstations and list:
1062 SD_task_get_workstation_count(t) and SD_task_get_workstation_list(t)
1063 * Add getter on task kind: SD_task_get_kind(task)
1064 * Update the start_time and finish_time of tasks on completion/failure
1065 * Bugfix: Remove task from state swags when destroyed
1068 * New function: void gras_cpu_burn(double flops) -- a simple CPU burner
1071 * New function: xbt_dynar_dopar(dynar,fun) to map a function over the
1072 dynar with one separate thread per value of the dynar.
1073 * Change the prototype of xbt_thread_create(), sorry.
1074 Added a boolean parameter indicating whether we want to join this
1075 thread (used in SG only for now)
1076 * Implement xbt_thread_join and xbt_thread_yield in SG also.
1079 * GTNetS wrappers should now be usable again (and betterly tested too)
1080 * Fix a major regression from 3.2 where the timeout provided to
1081 MSG_task_put_with_timeout() was used as absolute time before which
1082 the comm should be done.
1083 * Start to fix the <cluster> tag.
1084 - Internal links should be good now (beside of the loopback, which
1085 use the private link instead)
1086 - paths to the external world is still rather broken
1087 - the <route:multi> tag is just broken. Actually that's brain-dead.
1088 We need sth like <route:multi src="myCluster" dst="$*-${myCluster}">
1089 to make it less stupid
1090 ** Check your platform with teshsuite/simdag/platforms/flatifier **
1091 * Fix a source-level compatibility glitch from 3.2: after defining
1092 MSG_USE_DEPRECATED, you can use the old name
1093 MSG_task_put_with_time_out() for MSG_task_put_with_timeout()
1094 * Allow to compile from the SVN with automake 1.11
1095 * Fix some problems when using the "start_time" tag in deployment XMLs.
1096 * Fix #8569: XBT/synchro.h has redundant declarations
1097 * Fix #8563: MSG return values and exceptions
1098 Introduce a MSG_TIMEOUT_FAILURE return code and use it consistently.
1099 * Integrate patch #8636: Obey DESTDIR when installing documentation.
1100 Thanks to Robson Peixoto.
1101 * Fix a vicious bug in dictionaries inducing that some elements were
1102 not freed on xbt_dict_free()
1104 Portability report of this version:
1105 * Main portability targets:
1106 - linux (ubuntu (804/810/910) /debian (4/5/testing) /fedora (core11))
1107 on (amd64/i386/ia64)
1108 - mac leopard on i386
1109 Known problems: http://cdash.inria.fr/CDash/index.php?project=Simgrid
1110 but nothing critical.
1111 * Other platforms: windows, AIX and others were not tested for this release
1113 Timing report of this version:
1114 * Lazy evaluation brings arbitrary speedup (ie, speedup depending on
1115 scenario parameters). From 8h to a few seconds in desktop grid settings.
1116 * Supernovae brings about 25% speedup on i386.
1118 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:39 +0100
1120 SimGrid (3.3.3) stable; urgency=low
1122 The "Need for Speed" release.
1124 The timings done to validate the 3.3.2 were faulty.
1125 Instead of being 5% faster, it was 15% slower (compared to 3.3.1).
1127 The problem was a conversion from a manually handled vector to
1128 xbt_dynar_t on the critical path.
1129 xbt_dynar_foreach calls functions, inducing stack management crap.
1131 We inlined these functions and xbt_dynar_foreach is now breath taking.
1132 We also inlined xbt_swag_belong on the way.
1134 Here are some approximate speedup measurements (on master/slaves
1135 simulations lasting between 10s and 20s each):
1136 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2: about same performance
1137 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
1138 3.3.1 -> 3.3.3: 40% speedup
1139 3.3.1 with inline patch -> 3.3.3: 30% speedup
1141 Our reading is that the refactoring which occurred in 3.3.2 made us
1142 suffer much more from the xbt_dynar_foreach low performance, but
1143 once we solved this, this refactoring proved to be very performance
1144 effective. From the 40% speedup, somehow, 10% are due to the
1145 inlining and 30% to the refactoring.
1147 That's a pitty that gcc cannot inline functions placed in other files
1148 alone. We have to choose between:
1149 - break the encapsulation (by putting private data structures and
1150 accessors in headers files to help gcc)
1151 - live with low performance
1152 - switch to a decent compiler such as icc (not quite possible).
1154 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:21:33 +0200
1156 SimGrid (3.3.2) stable; urgency=low
1158 The "Simplicity does not preceed complexity, but follows it" release.
1160 The main contributors of this release were (lexical order):
1161 Silas De Munck, Stéphane Genaud, Martin Quinson, Cristian Rosa.
1164 * Extract the routing logic into its own object.
1165 (was dupplicated in network.c and workstation_LV07.c;
1166 Allows to implement other ways of storing that info)
1167 => kill now useless network_card concept
1168 - Use dynar to represent routes (instead of void** + int*)
1169 - kill link_set (use surf_network_model->resource_set instead)
1170 - Add a command-line option to choose the routing schema to use
1171 - Add three new models:
1172 * Floyd (shortest path computed at initialization)
1173 * Dijikstra (shortest path recomputed all the time)
1174 * Cached Dijikstra (shortest path computed on need)
1175 All these models where contributed by Silas De Munck, and are
1176 described in his ICCS09 paper.
1178 * Simplify model declaration
1179 (less redirections, less function to write when defining a model)
1180 - Factorize stuff between models:
1183 surf_model_resource_set(model)
1184 surf_model_resource_by_name(model, name)
1185 - Unify the types of models in s_surf_model_t (using an union)
1186 - Embeed fields of common_public directly into s_surf_model_t
1187 - Rename model methods:
1188 action_free ~> action_unref
1189 action_change_state ~> action_state_set
1190 action_get_state ~> action_state_get
1191 - Change model methods into functions :
1192 (model)->common_public->action_use ~> surf_action_ref
1194 * Implement a generic resource; use it as ancestor to specific ones
1195 (allows to kill duplicated code in models)
1196 Drawback: timer command don't need no name nor properties;
1197 workstation_CLM03 don't need no properties
1198 (but I guess we can live with those few bytes wasted)
1200 * Improve the action object model
1201 - implement a constructor avoiding dupplicated code about field
1202 initialization in generic_action part.
1204 * Kill the SDP model: it has an external dependency, is deprecated
1205 in flavor of modern lmm models, and didn't compile since a while
1208 * Relocation of the context module from XBT to SIMIX.
1209 (the context were decoupled from the simix processes, duplicating a lot of code)
1210 => a lot of code was factorized
1211 - less overhead is introduced during scheduling
1212 - simpler API for the context factory
1213 - the logic for process creation,destruction and manipulation was simplified
1214 * Simplification of the s_smx_process_t data structure.
1215 => accesing the simix level data associated to a process is faster now,
1216 and the code is a lot more readable.
1219 * Implement some more MPI primitives:
1220 MPI_Bcast, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Waitall, MPI_Reduce, MPI_Allreduce, MPI_Scatter, MPI_Sendrecv, MPI_Alltoall
1221 -implementation: Bcast: flat or 2-ary tree (default),
1222 Barrier: 4-ary tree,
1224 Allreduce: Reduce then Bcast
1225 Alltoall: "basic_linear" if data per proc < 3Kb, "otherwise pairwise".
1226 Not yet implemented: "Bruck" for data per proc < 200b and comm size > 12
1227 Alltoallv: flat tree, like ompi
1229 * Add support for optimized collectives (Bcast is now binomial by default)
1230 * Port smpirun and smpicc to OS X
1233 * Kill SD_link_get_properties: hard to maintain and makes very little sense
1234 Shout out if you used it.
1237 * Display the list of still queued messages in SG mode when existing
1241 * Add xbt_set_get_by_name_or_null() [Silas De Munck]
1242 * Add xbt_graph_node_get_outedges() [Silas De Munck]
1243 * Add xbt_str_from_file(FILE*)
1244 * Add xbt_dict_get_key achieving a linear reverse search
1245 * Remove the context module
1247 Portability report of this version:
1248 * Main portability targets:
1249 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
1250 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
1251 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
1252 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
1253 On these, we still have the eratic breakages of gras/pmm and
1254 amok/saturate_sg reported in previous version. We still think
1255 that the tests are the cause of the fault, not the tested code.
1257 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
1258 Still false negative in tesh autotesting.
1259 Smpi still fails, but this time because readlink does not accept -f
1260 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1263 - AIX version 5.3 (only tested contexts this time)
1264 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
1265 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1267 I managed to compile it for the first time, but several breakages.
1268 Won't delay the release for this exotic platform.
1270 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
1273 Timing report of this version:
1274 This version seem to be more than 5% faster than 3.3.1 (on linux
1275 64bits with contextes). The gain is less than expected, we are
1276 investigating this for next release.
1278 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:12 +0200
1280 SimGrid (3.3.1) stable; urgency=low
1283 * Implement a --cfg-help to show existing configuration variables
1284 * Build chain do not require doxygen in maintainer mode
1287 * fix a bug on struct sizeof computation, which prevented the
1288 exchange of arrays of structs in some conditions
1289 - added a regression test about this in datadesc_usage
1290 * Allow the exchange of 0-long dynamic vectors.
1291 - for that, use -1 as indicator of dynamic size instead of 0
1292 - This implied to change any size from unsigned long to long,
1293 reducing a bit communication abilities, but I guess that with
1294 64bits being quite common, this is more than enough.
1295 - This also induce a protocol change, thus bumping network protocol
1296 version from 0 to 1 (if we have external users, we have to get
1297 clean on that point too ;)
1298 - added two regression tests about this in datadesc_usage
1299 * Be more verbose when propagating local exceptions
1300 This helps debugging.
1301 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT in
1305 * Allow to control the simulation from a trace file.
1306 New functions MSG_action_register() and MSG_action_trace_run()
1307 The first one allows to associate a function execution to each
1308 kind of action while the second one parses a trace file and
1309 triggers the corresponding actions within the system.
1310 For now, only a toy example is provided in examples/msg/actions
1311 * Add an exemple of process migration in examples/msg/migration
1312 * Fix a bug in task exchange which broke MSG_task_get_sender()
1313 Add a teshsuite regression test for that.
1314 [Bug: if MSG_task_get_sender() is called after sender exit,
1316 * Fix a bug which prevented suspend/resume to work properly
1317 * Display the status of simulated processes when receiving SIGINT
1318 This fixes a regression of v3.3. due to the introduction of SIMIX
1319 * Bug fixing in failure management:
1320 - trace could not start by a failure at time 0
1321 - failure during communications were not working
1324 * Add SIMIX_process_set_name() to change the name of the current
1325 process in the log messages.
1326 * Store smx_hosts in a dict since we only retrieve them by name
1327 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
1330 * Move the configuration infrastructure to surf
1333 * Massive internal cleanups:
1334 - Store internal structures on processes instead of hosts (allows
1335 to have more than one process per host, in addition of being more
1337 - Cleanup the initialization/finalization process
1338 - Kill a whole bunch of unneeded synchronization:
1339 processes run in exclusive manner within the simulator
1340 - Move queues from global tables to process data fields
1342 - now accept -platform and -hostfile arguments
1343 - Pass the right rank value to processes according to the hostfile
1344 * Compile the examples by default, and use them as regression tests
1345 * Implement MPI_Wtime()
1346 * Change the reference speed to a command line option
1349 * TCP_gamma can now be specified as command line option using
1350 --cfg=TCP_gamma:10000000.0
1351 * Change the --surf-path cmd line option into --cfg=path:
1354 * Also include strbuff from xbt.h public header
1355 * xbt_ex_display(): do not free the exception after displaying
1356 This allows to do more with the given exception afterward.
1357 Users should call xbt_ex_free() themselves.
1361 Portability report of this version:
1362 * Main portability targets:
1363 - Linux(debian)/x86/context
1364 - Linux(debian)/x86/pthreads
1365 - Linux(debian)/amd64/context
1366 - Linux(debian)/amd64/pthreads
1367 These targets fail about 1/10 of times on gras/pmm, but we believe
1368 that this is because of the test, not because of simgrid.
1369 amok/saturate_sg fails even more rarely, and the test may not be
1372 - Mac OSX Leopard/x86/context
1373 The test suite still spits tons of errors because some obscure
1374 force prevents us from removing the temporary directories
1375 arguing that they still contain some metadata I've never heard of.
1376 Smpi fails because seq is not installed.
1377 Everything seems to work properly beside of that.
1380 - AIX version 5.3 (both contexts and pthread)
1381 Smpi still fails there because mktemp is not installed.
1382 XML inclusions seems rosty on AIX.
1384 * Windows: it's still lagging behind. If you want to help, please
1387 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:30 +0200
1389 SimGrid (3.3) stable; urgency=high
1393 * JAVA BINDINGS for MSG (you dreamt of them? We made them)
1394 [Malek Cherier & Mt]
1396 * Introduce the SIMIX module: factorize code between MSG and GRAS.
1399 Until now, GRAS were using MSG as an interface to SURF. It was
1400 quite difficult because both interface have several differences
1401 (MSG channels vs GRAS sockets were the most notable point).
1403 This also opens the gate to SMPI (which should occur soon) and speed
1404 up simulations by to 40% (even if it were not the main goal).
1406 **************************************
1407 *DO NOT MIX 3.2 RESULTS WITH 3.3 ONES* Simix may changes simulations!
1408 **************************************
1409 The point is that events occuring at the exact same timestamp are
1410 not scheduled in the same order with the old and new version. This
1411 may be enough to completely change the execution of simulations in
1412 some cases. Sorry for the inconvenience.
1414 * Cleanup and upgrade the XML format to push further scalability
1415 issues (check http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00256883/ for more info)
1417 * Improve the testing infrastructure with tesh. Now a very large part of
1418 the code is tested not only by being run but also by checking that the
1419 output match an expected output [Mt].
1421 * Move on to FleXML v1.7 for the embeeded XML parsers. This version
1422 is really less memory-demanding, which should allow you to use
1423 larger files in SimGrid [AL].
1425 * Inform valgrind about our contextes, so that it becomes usable
1426 with the default (and more effecient) version of SimGrid
1427 [contributed by Sékou Diakite, many thanks]
1430 * Introduce a listener thread in charge of receiving incoming
1431 messages from the network. It allows to overlap communication and
1432 computation but most notably, it removes some stupid deadlocks due
1433 to the fact that so far, a process could not send and receive at
1434 the same time. This made most non trivial communication schema
1436 * Convert the PIDs from long int to int to match the MSG ones (and
1437 linux ones too) [Mt]
1438 * New function: gras_agent_spawn() to launch a new process on
1439 current host. Only working in simulation for now. [Mt]
1440 * New function: gras_os_hostport() returning a constant form (ie,
1441 not needing to be freed) of "gras_os_hostname():gras_os_myport()"
1444 * Make the backtrace of exceptions more human readable [Mt]
1445 * New module: xbt/str [Mt]
1446 a ton of string utility functions (split, join, printf to a newly
1447 allocated buffer, trim, etc)
1448 * New module: xbt/hash [Mt]
1449 SHA1 hashing algorithm (more to come if needed)
1450 * New module: xbt/synchro [Mt]
1451 synchronization tools (mutex and conditions) working the same way
1452 in simulation and in real life (mainly useful for GRAS, but not
1454 * New module: xbt/queue [Mt]
1455 classical producer/consumer synchronization scheme
1456 * xbt_dynar_new_sync() creates a synchronized dynar. All access
1457 (using the classical functions will get serialized) [Mt]
1458 * Make dictionary internal table dynamic. No need to specify its size
1459 anymore; functions xbt_dict_new_ext() and xbt_dict_hashsize_set()
1461 * Make sure the log channels are organized as a tree under windows
1462 (because of ANSI C compatibility issue, any channel were child of
1463 root directly) [Mt].
1466 * Cleaned many thing in surf and fixed a few bugs [AL].
1467 * Add a nice command line configuration mechanism to compose models [AL].
1468 * Add a new model for parallel tasks (ptask_L07) that is less buggy than
1469 the previous one (KCCFLN05). It relies on something that looks like
1470 a max-min sharing mechanism but cannot be written as such. A new solver
1471 was thus designed [AL].
1472 * Add a new solver to lmm. Based on Lagrange optimization and
1473 gradient-based descent, it enables to efficiently maximise systems s.a
1475 sum f_i(x_i) s.t Ax<= b with A_{i,j}>=0 and f_i a concave function.
1477 This solver enables to propose two new network models for TCP Reno and
1478 TCP Vegas based on Low's work. These models still need to be fully
1479 tested though [Pedro Velho].
1482 * Bug fix in SD_simulate. Now the time bound given as argument is
1484 * Use the new parallel task model (ptask_L07) as default.
1485 * Use the SURF command line configuration mechanism.
1486 * 0-size tasks (for synchronization) should now work.
1488 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sun Apr 12 05:20:36 CEST 2009
1490 SimGrid (3.2) stable; urgency=high
1494 We still experience issues on this platform, but we believe that at
1495 least MSG is usable.
1497 GRAS API BREAKAGE (for simplification purpose, sorry):
1498 * the gras_msgtype_by_name is not used anymore. Instead of
1499 gras_msg_send(toserver, gras_msgtype_by_name("request"), &request);
1500 you can write (and must)
1501 gras_msg_send(toserver, "request", &request);
1502 - If you still want to pass a gras_msgtype_t to the function (to cache
1503 the type and avoid the lookup time), use the gras_msg_send_() variant.
1504 - Impacted functions:
1505 gras_cb_register, gras_cb_unregister, gras_msg_send, gras_msg_wait,
1506 gras_msg_rpccall, gras_msg_rpc_async_call, gras_msg_wait_ext
1507 * The callbacks are now expected to return 0 when everything went well
1508 (just like the main() function)
1510 GRAS new features and improvements:
1511 * New module mecanism where user code can use per process globals [Mt]
1512 This is similar to gras_userdata_*() functions, but for libraries. It
1513 factorize some code developped over and over in the examples and AMOK.
1514 It has still to be documented and used (only amok/peermanagement is
1516 * Fix a vicious bug in the TCP buffering mecanism which leaded to message
1517 loss when they were small enough to fit into the buffer and sent quickly
1518 enough so that they can all get received in one shoot.
1519 * gras_datadesc_by_name and gras_msgtype_by_name: now raise an exception
1520 if not found. Use the *_or_null() variant for the old semantic.
1521 * In gras_msg_handle, do not discard messages without callback.
1522 They are probably messages to be explicitly awaited later (ie, proofs of
1523 mis-synchronization in userland since they are sent before being awaited)
1524 No big deal usually.
1525 * gras_socket_meas_send/recv: semantic changed!
1526 The numerical arguments used to be (1) the total amount of data to send
1527 and (2) msg_size. This was changed to (1) msg_size and (2) amount of
1528 messages. This was need for the fool willing to send more than MAXINT
1529 bytes on quite fat pipes.
1532 * Do really rename the hostmanagement module to peermanagement. [Mt]
1533 Ie, rename functions from amok_hm_* to amok_pm_*. This breaks the API,
1534 but this is rather new and this was documented in the module
1535 documentation (poor excuses, I admit)
1536 * Bandwidth measurement semantic changed! This follows the changes to
1537 gras_socket_meas_send/recv explained above.
1540 * A sequential mode has been added to the workstations. When a workstation
1541 is in sequential mode, it can execute only one task, and the other tasks
1542 are waiting in a FIFO. [Christophe Thiery]
1545 * The KCCFLN05 workstation model now handles parallel tasks. It is the
1546 model for SIMDAG. [Christophe Thiery]
1547 * Bug fix in the maxmin solver: Some values were close to 0 instead of
1548 equal to 0, which caused some bad behaviors in
1549 saturated_constraint_set_update. I now use a threshold mechanism like in
1553 * When running manually src/testall, you select specific units [Mt]
1554 testall is the result of our cunit mecanism, and should replace all
1555 the scripty thingy around since bash don't run easily on billware.
1557 * A mallocator system has been added. [Christophe Thiery]
1558 Mallocators allow you to recycle your unused objects instead of freeing them
1559 and allocating new ones.
1561 Documentation update:
1562 * FAQ reworking + New FAQs:
1563 - "Valgrind spits tons of errors!" [Mt]
1564 - "How to repport bugs" [Mt]
1565 - "Cross-compiling a Windows DLL of SimGrid from Linux" [Mt]
1566 - "What is the difference between MSG, SimDag, and GRAS?" [Mt]
1567 - Communication time measurement within MSG [AL]
1568 - I experience weird communication times when I change the latency [AL]
1569 * GRAS tutorial [Mt]
1571 - an introduction to the framework and to the used communication model
1572 - an initiatic tour introducing the most proheminent features:
1574 . Lesson 0: Installing GRAS
1575 . Lesson 1: Setting up your own project
1576 o Part 2: Message passing
1577 . Lesson 2: Exchanging simple messages
1578 . Lesson 3: Passing arguments to the processes (in SG)
1579 . Lesson 4: Attaching callbacks to messages
1580 . Lesson 5: Using globals in processes
1581 . Lesson 6: Logging informations properly
1582 . Lesson 7: Using internal timers
1583 . Lesson 8: Handling errors through exceptions
1584 . Lesson 9: Exchanging simple data
1585 . Lesson 10: Remote Procedure Calling (RPC)
1586 . Lesson 11: Explicitely waiting for messages
1587 . Recapping of message passing features in GRAS
1588 - A HOWTO section containing:
1589 o HOWTO design a GRAS application
1590 More are due, of course. They will come latter. In the meanwhile, you can
1591 check the examples which are still here.
1593 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri Mar 16 21:11:46 CET 2007
1595 SimGrid (3.1) stable; urgency=high
1599 There was a stack corruption somewhere, visible only when optimizing
1600 with these versions. [Vince]
1603 * This is a NEW module! SimDAG (SD for short) is a revival of the old SG
1604 module that enabled to play with Directed Acyclic Graphs. It is built
1605 directly on top of SURF and provides an API rather close to the old
1606 SG. Some old codes using SG are currently under rewrite to check that
1607 all needful functions are provided. [Christophe Thiery]
1610 * Complete rewrite of the KCCFLN05 workstation model. It is now an
1611 extension of the classical CLM03 model that gracefully handles
1612 failures. This is now the default model for MSG and GRAS. It doesn't
1613 handle parallel tasks yet though. [AL]
1614 * Bug fix: Weights were not correctly set in the network part.
1615 WARNING: This may have resulted in incorrect results with simulations
1616 where there are more than one flow on a given link. [AL]
1619 * After a (long ?) discussion on simgrid-devel, we have decided that the
1620 convention we had on units was stupid. That is why it has been decided
1621 to move from (MBits, MFlops, seconds) to (Bits, Flops, seconds).
1622 WARNING : This means that all previous platform files will not work as
1623 such with this version! A warning is issued to ask users to update
1625 A conversion script can be found in the contrib module of the CVS, under
1626 the name contrib/platform_generation/surfxml_update.pl [MQ]
1629 * Bug fix: Processes were started in reverse order, wrt deployment file.
1630 WARNING: if your code relies on this bug, please fix it. [AL]
1631 * Bug fix: Add a test in MSG_task_execute to stop whenever a task is
1632 being executed on two different locations. [AL]
1633 * Bug fix: Failures are now better supported thanks to Derrick's tests
1634 (there was many failure situations I hadn't thought of and that weren't
1635 correctly handled). [AL]
1636 * New function: MSG_host_is_avail indicates you whether a given m_host_t
1640 * New! a real RPC mecanism, as it ought to be since too long. [MQ]
1641 Exception occurring on server-side are propagated back to client (!).
1643 API CHANGE: the callback changed their prototype. Change:
1644 int my_handler(gras_socket_t expeditor, void *payload_data) {
1646 int my_handler(gras_msg_cb_ctx_t ctx , void *payload_data) {
1647 gras_socket_t expeditor=gras_msg_cb_ctx_from(ctx);
1649 * New! function: gras_msg_handleall to deal with all messages arriving
1650 within a given period.
1651 * New! function: gras_socket_server_range to get a server socket in a
1652 range of port numbers (ease to avoid port number conflicts) [MQ]
1653 * New! gras processes display their backtrace when they get a SIGUSR1
1654 or when Ctrl-C is pressed. Use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit.
1655 Sweet to debug RL processes [MQ]
1659 - Do not force experiment sizes to be expressed in kb, or it becomes
1660 impossible to measure the latency this way (needs one byte-long tests)
1661 WARNING: this changes the amok_bw_* function semantic. [MQ]
1662 - Implements the link saturation stuff. [MQ]
1663 * Peer management module:
1664 New! module factorizing code that we wrote over and over [MQ].
1667 * New module: cunit (my jUnit implementation in ansi C) [MQ]
1668 - Test units are placed directly into the library code, they get extracted
1669 automatically and placed into the src/testall binary.
1670 - Convert most of the XBT tests to this system.
1671 * New functions: xbt_dynar_getfirst_as() and xbt_dynar_getlast_as() [MQ]
1672 * XML parsing: rewrote parts of flexml to enable multiple xml parsers to
1673 live in the same C code. This required to change a little bit the API
1674 of surfxml parsing but shouldn't be an issue for end-users. [AL]
1675 * New module: sparse graph structure with basic algorithms (this is work
1676 in progress and the API is not considered to be frozen yet). [AL]
1677 * Display more information on backtraces: source line & function names are
1678 now displayed just like valgrind does (rely on addr2line tool) [MQ]
1679 * New function: xbt_backtrace_display(). Sweet while debuging [MQ]
1680 * Reworked a little bit some #include statements to load only required
1681 headers. Some user code that relied on SimGrid to include stdlib or
1682 stdio may need to include it by themselves. [AL]
1683 * Fixed xbt/log.h. A missing SG_BEGIN_DECL prevented compilation with
1685 * Renamed xbt_host_t into xbt_peer_t since it betterly describes what I
1686 meant. This breaks the API of AMOK and of xbt/config. Sorry about this,
1687 but I guess that almost nobody used those parts. [MQ]
1689 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:32:27 +0200
1691 SimGrid (3.0.1) stable; urgency=low
1694 * Unfortunately, I had missed 5 misnamed functions:
1695 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_newitem(void);
1696 void xbt_fifo_freeitem(xbt_fifo_item_t);
1697 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getFirstItem(xbt_fifo_t l);
1698 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getNextItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1699 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_getPrevItem(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1700 They're now deprecated. Please use their new versions:
1701 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_new_item(void);
1702 void xbt_fifo_free_item(xbt_fifo_item_t);
1703 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_first_item(xbt_fifo_t l);
1704 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_next_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1705 xbt_fifo_item_t xbt_fifo_get_prev_item(xbt_fifo_item_t i);
1707 * Bugfix: really disconnect fifo items which are remove_item()ed [AL]
1708 * Documentation: xbt_log module unmercifully reworked [MQ]
1709 * Bugfix: there was a problem with the ending of contexts with
1710 the pthread backend. It caused some weird deadlock or behavior
1711 depending on the pthread implementation. [AL]
1712 * Bugfix: get the exceptions raised in the simulator repport where
1713 and why they come from when they are not catched in time [AL, MQ]
1716 * Bugfix: Do repport the error when two non-connected hosts try to
1717 exchange data (Thanks to Flavien for stumbling into this one) [AL]
1720 * Add additionnal checkings on communications. Assert that two
1721 communicating hosts are connected by a set of links... [AL]
1724 * Add additionnal checkings on channel values in communication [AL]
1725 * New: MSG_task_get_source to see on which host a task was generated [HC]
1726 * New: int MSG_task_probe_from_host(int channel, m_host_t host): returns
1727 the number of tasks waiting to be received on channel and sent
1729 * New: MSG_error_t MSG_task_get_from_host(m_task_t * task, int channel, m_host_t host);
1730 waits for the first task coming from a given host.. [AL]
1732 GRAS new functionnalities: [MQ]
1733 * Enhance the parsing macro to allow the size of multidimentional objects
1734 to be given thru annotations.
1735 * New example (and documentation): Matrix Multiplication a la RPC
1736 (as when I was young!) and fix a bunch of bugs found on the way.
1738 GRAS performance improvements: [MQ]
1740 * Reduce the amount of cbps creation/destruction by making it static to
1741 datadesc_send/recv() and using a (newly created) cbps_reset (based on
1744 * Change libdata to a set so that we can search for stuff by ID (and thus
1745 reduce the insane amount of dict lookups)
1748 * Actually implement gras_datadesc_copy() so that we don't have to mimick
1749 RL communication on top of SG since it's so uneffective.
1750 It may also be used for inter-thread communication in RL, one day.
1751 * Use gras_datadesc_copy() to exchange messages on top of SG
1753 - improve message exchange performance on top of SG
1754 - deprecate transport_plugin_sg.c:gras_trp_sg_chunk_send() & recv()
1755 * Don't exchange on the network the size of the used part of buffer,
1756 instead, specify the possible buffer size to read().
1758 - reduces the amount of read/write calls (one pair per exchange)
1759 - reduces the amount of exchanged data (the size)
1760 - allows to retrieve all arrived data on receiver side, if we don't need
1761 it right now (subsequent read will peek the buffer)
1762 - allows the receiver to proceed with the begining of the stream before
1763 everything is arrived
1764 - make it possible to build an iov transport (using readv/writev)
1766 - take care of the data with non-stable storage (like stacked data),
1768 * If possible, TCP send uses vector I/O (when writev() is here)
1769 - Don't use it for receive since we send data sizes and data on the
1770 same stream, so we wouldn't be able to chain large amount of chunks
1771 before having to flush the stuff to read the size.
1772 * Rework the transport plugin mecanism to simplify it and reduce the
1773 amount of pointer dereferencement when searching for the right function
1776 * I guess that now, we do almost as few system calls as possible while
1777 doing as few data copy as possible.
1779 To improve it further, we could try to send all the sizes first and then
1780 all the data (to use iov on receiving size), but it's only a partial
1781 solution: when you have 2 dimensional data, the sizes of the second
1782 dimension is data of the first dimension, so you need 3 streams.
1784 I'm not sure the potential performance gains justify the coding burden.
1786 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:20 +0200
1788 SimGrid (3.00) stable; urgency=high
1791 * New! Give the possibility to hijack the surf parser and thus bypass
1792 MSG_create_environment and MSG_launch_application. Have a look at
1793 examples/msg/msg_test_surfxml_bypassed.c to see how it can be done.
1795 -- Arnaud Legrand <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:25:25 -0700
1797 SimGrid (2.96) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * New! Exception handling with setjmp or such (code from OSSP ex) [MQ]
1803 This deprecates the xbt_error_t mecanisms.
1804 It modifies (simplifies) all XBT and GRAS API.
1805 MSG API keeps unchanged (exceptions raised by XBT are catched from
1806 within MSG and masked with existing error handling facilities)
1809 * New! Add a FATPIPE model. [AL]
1810 * New! Add a parallel task model. [AL]
1811 * New! Add automatically a loopback interface (in the default
1812 network model) if none was precised.
1815 * Bugfix: MSG_process_resume now works with the current running process.
1817 * New! Add MSG_parallel_task_create and MSG_parallel_task_execute. [AL]
1818 * Modification of MSG_task_get_compute_duration. Once a task has been
1819 processed, the value returned by this function is now equal to 0. [AL]
1820 * New! Add double MSG_task_get_remaining_computation(m_task_t task) and
1821 MSG_error_t MSG_task_cancel(m_task_t task). Add a state
1822 (MSG_TASK_CANCELLED) to MSG_error_t corresponding to the cancelation
1823 of a m_task. For now, MSG_task_cancel only works with computation
1825 * New! Add double MSG_get_host_speed(m_host_t h) that returns the speed
1826 of the processor (in Mflop/s) regardless of the current load on the
1828 * API Change: use proper naming convention for MSG_getClock and
1829 MSG_process_isSuspended: MSG_get_clock and MSG_process_is_suspended.
1831 * New! Add void MSG_task_set_priority(m_task_t task, double priority).
1832 This function changes the priority of a computation task. This priority
1833 doesn't affect the transfer rate. A priority of 2 will make a task
1834 receive two times more cpu power than the other ones. This function
1835 has been added to suit the needs of Nguyen The Loc and hasn't been that
1836 much tested yet. So if it fails, please report it and send me your code.
1838 * API Change: removed all functions and types that were marked "deprecated"
1839 since many months. Renamed MSG_global_init_args to MSG_global_init.
1841 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:58:47 -0700
1843 SimGrid (2.95) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Steal some nice code to GNU pth to fix context detection and usage [AL]
1847 * Cleanup in the xbt_config API; add configuration callbacks. [MQ]
1848 * Cleanup in the initialization API: the unused "defaultlog" is dead. [MQ]
1851 * Bugfix: Allow absolute paths for platform description files [MQ]
1852 * Bugfix: do free the variables after use. Leads to drastic performance
1854 * Implement max_duration (ie, timeouts) on resources [AL]
1857 * Implement MSG_config to configure MSG at runtime. xbt_cfg test on a real
1859 * Implement MSG_channel_select_from() to help GRAS now that SURF provide
1860 the needed support (timeouts) [AL]
1863 * Implement measurement sockets. You can now get the bandwidth between two
1864 hosts thanks to AMOK (see below). [MQ]
1865 * gras_datadesc_dynar() builds a dynar type descriptor, allowing to send
1866 dynar over the network (yeah) [MQ]
1867 * Real (even if simplistic) implementation of gras_os_myname() on RL [MQ]
1868 * simple/static token-ring example. [Alexandre Colucci and MQ]
1869 * Use MSG_channel_select_from() and remove the *slow* hack we had to put
1870 in place before [MQ]
1873 * Differentiate the types "char[22]" and "unsigned char[22]" in automatic
1874 type parsing. "short" and "long" modifiers were also ignored; other
1875 modifier (such as reference level) are still ignored. [MQ]
1876 * Embeed the buffer size within the buffer itself on SG. [MQ]
1877 That way, send() are atomic and cannot get intermixed anymore (at least
1878 the ones which are less than 100k; bigger messages still have the issue)
1879 * Array size pushed by the field, not by the field type (or each
1880 and every long int will push stuff to the cbps) [MQ]
1881 * use select() to sleep since it allows to portably sleep less than one
1884 GRAS (minor cleanups)
1885 * <project>.Makefile.local (generated from gras_stub_generator) |MQ]:
1888 * Type Callbacks now receive the gras_datadesc_type_t they work on as argument.
1889 * type category 'ignored' killed as it was never used and were difficult
1891 * whether a type can cycle or not is now a flag, leaving room for more
1892 flags (as "ignored", if we feel the need one day ;)
1893 * Rename raw sockets to measurement sockets since "raw" has another
1894 meaning in networking community.
1897 * Advanced Metacomputing Overlay Kit introduction. It is based over GRAS
1898 and offers features not belonging to GRAS but that most applications
1899 need. One day, it may be a set of plugins loadable at runtime.
1900 * New module: bandwidth
1901 bandwidth measurement between arbitrary nodes running this module. [MQ]
1903 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0700
1905 SimGrid (2.94) unstable; urgency=low
1907 The first beta release of SimGrid 3 !
1911 * Update the main page and the FAQ. Adding references to gforge.
1914 * Add a gras_os_getpid function.
1917 * Add MSG_task_get_compute_duration() and MSG_task_get_data_size()
1918 * Extend the logs so that they also print PID, hostname, date, ... if
1920 * Convert the MSG example to the use of xbt_logs instead of PRINT_MESSAGE,
1921 and kill the old version which were in testsuite/
1922 * Rewrite tools/MSG_visualization/colorize.pl for using with logs instead
1926 * Add xbt_os_time(). As the rest of xbt/portability, this is not public
1927 for users. Instead, each programming environment (GRAS, MSG,...) use it
1928 when needed to provide such a feature to users.
1929 Don't shortcut the mecanism or you will also shortcut the virtualization
1930 you need on the simulator.
1934 * Cleanups in configury with regard to compile optimization/warning flags.
1935 Also add -fno-loop-optimize to any powerpc since it's the optimization
1936 killing gcc (< 3.4.0).
1937 * Doxygen cleanups: move MSG examples, kill the second Doxygen phase
1938 needed by MSG examples complications
1939 * Borrow configury beautifications from PHP
1942 * Bugfix: XBT_LOG_NEW_DEFAULT_CATEGORY now compiles without compiler
1943 warning (thanks loris for stumbling into this one).
1944 * Bugfix: stop loading private headers (gras_config.h) from the public
1948 * Change SIMGRID_INSTALL_PATH to GRAS_ROOT in Makefiles generated for user.
1949 * Rename gras_get_my_fqdn to gras_os_myname and implement it in the simulator
1950 RL would imply a DNS resolver, which is *hard* to do in a portable way
1951 (and therefore delayed).
1952 * Implement a real timer mecanism and use it in timing macros. This allows
1953 to avoid rounding errors and get a 0.000005 sec precision in timing
1954 macros. While I was at it, various cleanups:
1955 - allow to declare more than one timed section per file (fix a stupid bug)
1956 - move some private declaration to the right place
1957 - merge conditional execution and timing macros into emulation module
1958 - document the module
1959 - make sure the module cleanups its mess on gras_exit
1960 * Documentation improvements:
1961 - (new) how to compile applications using GRAS
1962 - (new) emulation support (timing macros)
1964 -- Da SimGrid team <simgrid-devel@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:49:31 +0200
1966 SimGrid (2.93) unstable; urgency=low
1968 Alpha 4 on the path to SimGrid 3 (aka the "neuf-trois" version)
1971 - Use Paje properly where used. Still to be sanitized properly.
1972 - Portability fix: Add an implementation of the contexts using pthread
1976 - Add xbt_procname(): returns the name of the current process.
1977 Use it to show the current process's name in all logging.
1979 - fix detection of older flex version and the reaction, since we do
1980 depend on modern ones (we use lex_destroy)
1981 - Better separation of SG and RL in the libs: remove all simulation code
1982 from libgras. As a result, this lib is now only 200k when stripped.
1983 Some of the xbt modules may also be duplicated (two sets and such) and
1984 should be cleaned/killed before SG3.
1985 - Insist on using xlC on AIX because of weird problems involving gcc there.
1986 - Cleanup the make remote stuff. This is now done by scripts
1987 tools/graspe-{master,slave} (GRAS Platform Expender). This is still
1988 mainly for our private use, but we're working on changing them to user
1991 - Bugfix: flush the socket on close only if there is some *output*.
1992 - Bugfix: flush idempotent when there's nothing to send (don't send size=0)
1994 - Add MSG_task_get_name. The task names are mainly for debugging purpose,
1997 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:32:37 -0800
1999 SimGrid (2.92) unstable; urgency=low
2001 Alpha 3 on the path to SimGrid 3
2005 - New! First try of benchmarking macros.
2006 - New! First try so that gras_stub_generator generate deployment and
2007 remote compilation helpers.
2009 - Bugfix: Initialization fix in msg_test.
2013 - Bugfix: applied patch to lexer so that it doesn't need a huge heap.
2015 - Bugfix: let dicts work with NULL content (_foreach didn't) and cleanups
2017 - API Change: gras_os_sleep to take the amount of seconds as a double.
2018 Accepting an int was error prone since it was the only location where
2019 seconds were coded as such. It leaded to damn rounding errors.
2020 - Bugfix: Hard to belive that timers ever worked before this.
2022 -- SimGrid team <simgrid2-users@listes.ens-lyon.fr> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:09:21 +0100
2024 SimGrid (2.91) unstable; urgency=low
2026 Alpha 2 on the path to SimGrid 3
2030 - Bug fix in the lmm_solver.
2032 - New! Interface to Paje (see http://www-id.imag.fr/Logiciels/paje/)
2033 through the function MSG_paje_output.
2034 - New! Introducing two new functions MSG_process_kill() and MSG_process_killall().
2035 - It is possible to bound the rate of a communication in MSG with
2036 MSG_task_put_bounded() (was already in the previous version but I had forgotten
2037 to write it in the changelog).
2038 - Bug fix to let GRAS run on top of MSG until we move it directly on top
2043 - Various cleanups to the autotools stuff
2044 - Begin to move Gras examples to examples/gras/
2045 - Let make distcheck work again (yeah!)
2047 - documentation overhauled using doxygen.
2048 gtk-doc-tools is dead in SimGrid now.
2049 - Automatically extract all existing logging categories, and add the list
2050 to the documentation (long standing one, to say the less)
2052 - Cleanup the known architecture table. Reorder the entries to group what
2053 should be, and use a more consistent naming scheme.
2054 (some of the test dataset are still to be regenerated)
2055 - New! Allow library to register globals on each process just as userdata
2057 This is implemented using a xbt_dict and not a xbt_set, so we loose the
2058 lookup time (for now).
2059 Use it in msg and trp.
2060 This cleans a lot the internals and helps enforcing privacy of the
2061 headers between the gras components.
2062 - New! Add a timer mechanism, not unlike cron(8) and at(1).
2063 - Bugfix: gras_os_time was delirious in RL.
2064 - Bugfix: gras_trp_select/RL don't run into the wall when asked to select
2066 - Reenable GRAS now that it works.
2068 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:02:13 -0800
2070 SimGrid (2.90) unstable; urgency=low
2072 Alpha 1 on the path to SimGrid 3
2074 * It is a long time since the last release of SimGrid. I'm sorry about
2075 that but as I had told you, I was rewriting a lot of things. I apologize
2076 to those who had been reporting bugs to me and that I had not answered.
2077 If your bug is still in the new version, please tell me. Here is a
2078 summary of the main changes.
2080 * REVOLUTION 1: The SimGrid project has merged with the GRAS project
2081 lead by Martin Quinson. As a consequence SimGrid gains a lot in
2082 portability, speed, and a lot more but you'll figure it out later.
2083 SimGrid now comprises 3 different projects : MSG, GRAS and SMPI.
2084 I wanted to release the new MSG as soon as possible and I have
2085 broken GRAS, which is the reason why, for now, only MSG is fully
2086 functional. A laconic description of these projects is available
2087 in the documentation.
2089 * REVOLUTION 2: I have removed SG and I am now using a new simulation
2090 kernel optimized for our needs (called SURF but only the developers
2091 should use it). Hence, MSG is now roughly 30 times faster and I think
2092 that by rewriting a little bit MSG, I could event speed it up a little
2093 bit more. Beside the gain in speed, it is also much easier to encode a
2094 new platform model with SURF than it was with SG. More to come...
2096 * REVOLUTION 3: I have tried to change a little as possible the API of
2097 MSG but a few things really had to disappear. The main differences
2098 with the previous version are :
2099 1) no more m_links_t and the corresponding functions. Platforms are
2100 directly read from a XML description and cannot be hard-coded
2101 anymore. The same format is used for application deployment
2102 description. The new format is described in the documentation.
2103 Have a look in tools/platform_generation. There is a tiny script
2104 that converts from the old platform format to the new one. Concerning
2105 the application deployment format, parsing the old one is tricky.
2106 I think most of you should however be able to convert your files. If
2107 it is really an issue, I can write a C code that does the conversion.
2109 2) the toolbox tbx does not exist anymore. We now have a library
2110 with much more data-structures but without the hash-tables (we have
2111 dictionaries that are much faster).
2113 -- Arnaud Legrand <Arnaud.Legrand@imag.fr> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:45:53 -0800
2115 *****************************************************************************
2116 * Follows the old GRAS changelog. It does not follow the same syntax, but I *
2117 * don't feel like converting the oldies. (Mt) *
2118 *****************************************************************************
2121 Version 2.90: "the long awaited one"
2122 - Finished rewriting and debugging MSG. Rewrote the documentation.
2123 - disable GRAS for now since it needs to be ported to the newest SG
2126 - Finish the port to windows (using mingw32 for cross-compile)
2129 - Main loop and datastructures of SURF. A cpu resource object is
2130 functional. Surf can thus be used to create cpu's with variable
2131 performance on which you can execute some actions.
2133 2004-11-15 Martin Quinson
2134 - Port to ARM. Simply added the alignment and size descriptions. Should
2135 work, but the ARM machines are so slow that I didn't had the opportunity
2136 to 'make check' over there yet.
2138 2004-11-15 Arnaud Legrand
2139 - Trace manager now written. It uses a heap structure and is therefore
2140 expected to be efficient. It may however be speeded up (particularly
2141 when many events occur at the same date) by using red and black
2142 trees. One day maybe...
2143 - Max-min linear system solver written. It uses a sparse matrix
2144 structure taking advantage of its expected use. Most operations are
2145 O(1) and free/calloc are called as few as possible. The computation of
2146 the minimum could however be improved by using a red and black tree
2149 2004-11-03 Arnaud Legrand
2150 - Rename every gras_* function that was in xbt/ to its xbt_
2152 - Add a heap and a doubly-linked list to xbt
2153 - Added a dichotomy to the dictionaries. make check works as well before
2154 so I assume that the patch is correct. I do not know however if things
2155 run effectively faster than before now. :)
2157 Inclusion of the SimGrid tree in the GRAS one. The archive is renamed to
2158 SimGrid, and the version number is bumped to 2.x
2160 2004-10-29 Martin Quinson
2161 - Introduction of the remote errors.
2162 They are the result of a RMI/RPC on the remote machine.
2163 ErrCodes being scalar values, you can't get the host on which those
2164 errors did happen. Extending the error mechanism as in Gnome is possible.
2165 No idea yet whether it is a good idea.
2167 2004-10-28 Martin Quinson
2168 - Interface revolution: the Starred Structure Eradication.
2169 I used to do typedef struct {} toto_t; and then handle *toto_t.
2170 Arnaud (and Oli) didn't like it, and I surrendered. Now, you have:
2171 - ???_t is a valid type (builded with typedef)
2172 - s_toto_t is a structure (access to fields with .)
2173 - s_toto is a structure needing 'struct' keyword to be used
2174 - e_toto_t is an enum
2175 - toto_t is an 'object' (struct*)
2177 typedef struct s_toto {} s_toto_t, *toto_t;
2178 typedef enum {} e_toto_t;
2179 Moreover, only toto_t (and e_toto_t) are public. The rest (mainly
2180 s_toto_t) is private.
2182 - While I was at it, all gras_<obj>_free() functions want a gras_<obj>_t*
2183 so that it can set the variable to NULL. It was so for dicts and sets,
2184 it changed for dynars.
2186 - Fix a bunch of memleaks in dict_remove
2187 - Fix a bug in sg/server_socket opening: it failed all the time.
2189 2004-10-07 Martin Quinson
2190 - Speed up dynar lookup operation a bit.
2192 gras_dynar_get is dead.
2194 Now, you can choose between gras_dynar_get_cpy (the old gras_dynar_get
2195 but should be avoided for efficiency reasons) and gras_dynar_get_ptr
2196 (which gives you the address of the stored data).
2198 gras_dynar_get_as is an helpful macro which allows you to retrieve a
2199 copy of the data using an affectation to do the job and not a memcpy.
2201 int toto = gras_dynar_get_as(dyn,0,int); rewrites itself to
2202 int toto = *(int*)gras_dynar_get_ptr(dyn,0);
2204 It does not really speedup the dynar test because they are
2205 setting elements all the time (and look them seldom). But the dict does
2206 far more lookup than setting.
2208 So, this brings the dict_crash test from ~33s to ~25s (200000 elms).
2210 2004-10-05 Martin Quinson
2211 - Allow to (en/dis)able the cycle detection at run time.
2213 Whether we should check for cycle or not is now a property of each
2214 datatype. When you think there may be some cycle, use datadesc_cycle_set.
2215 datadesc_cycle_unset allow to remove this property when previously set.
2217 Note that the cycle detection is off by default since it impacts the
2218 performance. Watch the data you feed GRAS with ;)
2220 This property is hereditary. Any element embedded in a structure having it
2221 set have it set for the time of this data exchange.
2223 You should set it both on sender and receiver side. If you don't set it on
2224 sender side, it will enter an endless loop. If you forget on receiver
2225 side, the cycles won't be recreated after communication.
2227 - Header reorganization.
2228 Kill gras_private.h, each submodule must load the headers it needs.
2230 2004-10-04 Martin Quinson
2231 - Interface revolution: do not try to survive to malloc failure.
2233 Now, gras_malloc and friends call gras_abort() on failure.
2234 As a conclusion, malloc_error is not a valid error anymore, and all
2235 functions for which it was the only gras_error_t return value are
2236 changed. They now return void, or there result directly.
2237 This simplify the API a lot.
2239 2004-09-29 Martin Quinson
2240 - Re-enable raw sockets.
2241 Created by gras_socket_{client,server}_ext;
2242 Used with gras_raw_{send,recv}
2245 It should allow to kill the last bits of gras first version soon.
2247 This is not completely satisfactory yet (duplicate code with
2248 chunk_{send,recv}; a bit out of the plugin mechanism), but it should
2251 - Simplify transport plugin (internal) interface by not passing any
2252 argument to _server and _client, but embedding them in the socket
2255 2004-09-28 Martin Quinson
2256 - Finish the port to AIX.
2257 autoconf was my problem (segfault within the malloc replacement
2258 function. No idea why)
2260 2004-09-16 Martin Quinson
2261 - Fix some size_t madness on 64bit architectures.
2263 2004-09-08 Martin Quinson
2264 - Reduce the number of system headers loaded, overload some more system
2265 calls (such as malloc to cast the result of the system one, and work
2267 - Fix and reintroduce the config support
2269 2004-09-07 Martin Quinson
2270 - Source code reorganization to allow Arnaud to surf all over there.
2271 - Allow to document the logging categories.
2272 - Remove all uppercase from logging categories and useless cleanup in names.
2274 2004-08-18 Martin Quinson
2275 Version 0.6.2 (protocol not changed; API changed)
2276 - Interface cleanup: gras_msgtype_by_name returns the type (instead of a
2277 gras_error_t), and NULL when not found. Functions expecting a msgtype
2278 as argument (msg_wait; msg_send) deal with NULL argument by providing a
2279 hopefully usefull message.
2280 - Portability to prehistoric sparcs again
2282 2004-08-17 Martin Quinson
2283 Version 0.6.1 (protocol not changed; ABI not changed)
2284 - prealloc some buffers to speed things up
2286 2004-08-11 Martin Quinson
2287 Version 0.6 (protocol not changed; ABI expended)
2288 - The parsing macro can deal with the references, provided that you add
2289 the relevant annotations (using GRAS_ANNOTE(size,field_name))
2291 2004-08-09 Martin Quinson
2292 Version 0.5 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
2293 - Allow to off turn the cycle detection code in data exchange at
2294 compilation time. It should be at run time, but I'm short of time (and
2295 the config stuff is still broken). That way, we keep dict out of the
2296 critical path, which is good because the performance is poor:
2297 - search not dichotomial yet
2298 - dynar give no way to access their content and memcpy everytime
2299 - In composed data description (struct, ref and so on), stop foolness of
2300 keeping the subtype's ID, but store the type itself. This keeps sets out
2301 of the critical path, which is good since they rely on dynar and
2302 dictionnaries. The only loose of that is that we cannot detect the
2303 redeclaration of a structure/union with another content (but I'm not sure
2304 the code detected well this error before anyway). We still can detect
2305 the redefinition discrepancy for the other types.
2306 - Use a whole bunch of optimisation flags (plus -fno-strict-aliasing since
2307 it breaks the code because of type-punning used all over the place).
2308 This breaks on all non-gcc architectures (for now).
2310 All those changes (plus the buffer of last time) allow me to gain 2 order
2311 of magnitude on cruel tests consisting of 800000 array of integers on two
2312 level of a hierarchical structure (200 secondes -> 4 secondes)
2315 - the selector of reference must now return the type it points to, not
2316 the ID of this type.
2318 2004-08-06 Martin Quinson
2319 Version 0.4 (protocol changed; ABI not changed)
2320 - Allow to pass --gras-log argument to processes in simulation mode. Really.
2321 - New debugging level: trace (under debug) to see effect of GRAS_IN/OUT
2322 - Implement a buffer transport, and use it by default (it relies on tcp in
2323 real life and on sg in simulation).
2324 That's a bit hackish since I had a new field to the structure to store
2325 its data without interfering with the subtype ones. Inheritance
2326 is tricky in C. And that's a kind of reverse inheritance with one class
2327 derivating two classes. Or maybe a game with java interfaces. Anyway,
2328 that's damn hard in C (at least).
2329 Moreover, I got tired while trying to ensure plugin separation and
2330 genericity in SG mode. MSG wants me to do weird things, so let's go for
2331 cruel hacks (temporarily of course ;).
2332 See comment in transport_private.h:71
2333 - do not include all the _interface headers in private but in the files
2334 which really need them (to cut the compilation time when they are
2337 2004-07-26 Martin Quinson
2338 Version 0.3 (protocol not changed; ABI changed)
2339 - Major overhault of the datadesc interface to simplify it:
2340 - shorted the function names:
2341 s/gras_datadesc_declare_struct/gras_datadesc_struct/ and so on
2342 - add a trivial way to push/pop integers into the cbps without malloc.
2343 This allows to make really generic sub_type description, which simply
2344 pop their size of the stack.
2345 - add a function gras_datadesc_ref_pop_arr() which does what users want
2346 most of the time: Declare a dynamic array (which pops its size of the
2347 stack) and declare a reference to it. Poor name, but anyway.
2348 - kill the post-send callback, add a post-receive one
2350 2004-07-23 Martin Quinson
2351 Version 0.2 (protocol changed; ABI changed)
2352 - add some testing for cpbs in the test cases, and fix some more bugs.
2353 This invalidate again the little64 data file, since I cannot regenerate
2355 - remove an awfull optimization in the logging stuff, allowing me to:
2356 - understand it again
2357 - learn gcc how to check that the argument match the provided format
2358 - fix all errors revealed by gcc after that
2359 - internal keys of dict are not \0 terminated. Deal with it properly in
2360 loggings instead of segfaulting when the user want to see the logs :-/
2362 2004-07-22 Martin Quinson
2363 - Fix some stupid bug preventing cbps (callback postit) from working
2365 2004-07-21 Martin Quinson
2366 - Some documentation cleanups
2367 - remove the useless last argument of msgtype_declare
2368 - rename the Virtu functions to fit into the 'os' namespace
2369 - move headers src/include -> src/include/gras/ and stop fooling with
2370 gras -> . symbolic link
2371 - make distcheck is now successful
2373 2004-07-19 Martin Quinson
2375 - Build shared library also
2376 - Install html doc to the right location
2377 - stop removing maintainer files in make clean
2378 - build tests only on make check
2380 2004-07-13 Martin Quinson
2382 - No major issue in previous version => change versionning schema
2383 - Re-enable little64 convertion test now that Abdou kindly regenerated the
2384 corresponding dataset.
2386 2004-07-11 Martin Quinson
2388 - Get it working with any kind of structure (we can compute the padding
2389 bytes remotely for all the architectures I have access to)
2390 - Implement the structure parsing macro (still not quite robust/complete)
2391 - Improvement to the remote testing toysuite
2393 2004-07-10 Martin Quinson
2394 [autoconf mechanism]
2395 - get ride of a bunch of deprecated macros
2396 - actually run the test for two-compliment, not only compile it :-/
2397 - test whether the structures get packed (and bail out if yes. Damn.
2398 Alignment is a serious matter)
2399 - test whether the structures get compacted (but respecting the alignment
2400 constraints of each types)
2401 - test whether the array fields of structures can straddle alignment boundaries
2403 - Damnit, double are bigger than float (typo in creation of 'double' datadesc)
2404 (took me 2 hours to find that bug, looking at the wrong place)
2405 - Add gras_datadesc_declare_{union,struct}_close(). They must be used
2406 before sending/receiving and are used to compute the offsets of fields
2407 - Given that padding size depend even on compiler options, keep track of
2408 alignment and aligned_size only for the current architecture. Not a big
2409 deal since we send structure fields one after the other (seems
2411 - Add the datastructure used for IEEE paper by the PBIO guys to the test
2412 program, let it work on linux/gcc/little32. portability todo.
2414 2004-07-08 Martin Quinson
2415 - import and improve remote compilation support from FAST
2416 - make sure make check works on half a dozen of machines out there
2418 2004-07-07 Martin Quinson
2419 Let's say it's version 0.0.3 ;)
2420 - Implement conversions (yuhu!)
2421 - Let it work on solaris (beside conversion, of course)
2422 - Stupid me, using rand() to generate the conversion datatests in not wise.
2424 2004-07-06 Martin Quinson
2425 - Let make dist work, since I'm gonna need it to compile on remote hosts
2426 - Let Tests/datadesc_usage write the architecture on which the file was
2427 generated as first byte.
2428 - Add PowerPC (being also IRIX64), SPARC (also power4) and ALPHA
2429 architecture descriptions.
2430 - Add datadesc_usage.{i386,ppc,sparc} files being the result of execution
2431 on those architectures.
2432 - Optimization: send/recv array of scalar in one shoot
2434 2004-07-05 Martin Quinson
2435 - YEAH! GRAS/SG and GRAS/RL are both able to run the ping example !
2437 - Plug a whole bunch of memleaks
2438 - each process now have to call gras_{init,exit}. One day, their log
2439 settings will be separated
2440 - Continue the code factorisation between SG, RL and common in Transport.
2442 2004-07-04 Martin Quinson
2444 - Redistribution between SG and RL.
2445 We wanna have to accept in SG, so move accepted related parts of RL in
2446 the common part. (more precisely, the dynar of all known sockets is no
2447 more a static in transport.c, but part of the process_data)
2449 [gras_stub_generator]
2450 - Bug fix: Do call gras_process_init from gras_init (wasnt called in RL).
2452 2004-07-03 Martin Quinson
2453 - Create a new log channel tbx containing dict, set, log, dynar (to shut
2454 them all up in one shot)
2456 - Fix the ugly case of reference to dynamic array.
2457 - New (semi-public) function gras_datadesc_size to allow the messaging
2458 layer to malloc the needed space for the buffer.
2460 - gras_socket_close now expect the socket to close (and not its address to
2461 put NULL in it after it). This is because the socket passed to handlers
2462 is one of their argument (=> not writable).
2464 - propagate the interface cleanup from last week in datadesc, ie remove a
2465 superfluous level of indirection. User pass adress of variable
2466 containing data (both when sending and receiving), and not of a variable
2467 being a pointer to the data. Let's say that I like it better ;)
2468 The price for that is constructs like "int msg=*(int*)payload" in
2469 handlers, but it's a fine price, IMHO.
2471 - Let it work in RL (yuhu)
2473 2004-06-21 Martin Quinson
2475 - porting SG plugin and SG select to new standards (works almost).
2476 - plug memleaks and fix bugs around.
2479 - cleanup the prototype of data recv and force users to specify when they
2480 want to handle references to objects. Test case working even for cycles.
2481 - plug memleaks. Valgrind is perfectly ok with this.
2483 2004-06-12 Martin Quinson
2485 - cleanup the separation between plugin and main code in plugin creation
2487 2004-06-11 Martin Quinson
2489 - Reput hook for raw sockets, needed for BW experiments
2490 - kill a few lines of dead code
2491 [Data description] Interface cleanup
2492 - gras_datadesc_by_name returns the searched type or NULL.
2493 That way, no variable is needed to use a type desc once, which makes
2495 - gras_datadesc_declare_[struct|union]_append_name is removed. The last
2496 two parameters were strings (field name, type name), leading to
2498 [Dicos] Interface cleanup
2499 - gras_dico_retrieve -> gras_dico_get ; gras_dico_insert -> gras_dico_set
2500 This is consistant with the dynar API.
2502 2004-04-21 Martin Quinson
2504 - Porting to new standards.
2506 - interface cleanup.
2507 There is no bag anymore, no need to take extra provision to mask the
2508 pointers behind "ID".
2509 Better splitup of functions between files create/exchange/convert.
2510 This is still a bit artificial since convert and receive are so
2511 interleaved, but anyway.
2513 - add a queued message list to procdata (the ones not matching criteria
2515 - factorize some more code between SG and RL wrt procdata
2517 - use gras_exit in example to track memleaks
2518 - get rid of gs_example now that GS is properly integrated into gras
2519 - update run_test to integrate the latest tests (datadesc)
2521 - rename WARNINGn macros to WARNn since it prooved error-prone
2523 2004-04-19 Martin Quinson
2525 - register init/exit functions within gras module mechanism
2526 - send/receive function.
2527 Convertion is not implemented, but short-cutted if not needed.
2528 struct/array elements are sent one by one (instead of block-wise), but
2529 nobody really cares (yet). Get a prototype before optimizing.
2530 - tests (using a file socket) for DD send/receive on:
2531 - base types: int, float
2532 - array: fixed size, string (ie ref to dynamic string)
2533 - structure: homogeneous, heterogeneous
2534 - chained list, graph with cycle
2535 Believe it or not, valgrind is not too unhappy with the results. The
2536 cycle happily segfaults, but the others are ok. And I'm sick of pointers
2540 - Bugfix when using a filename explicitely (instead of '-')
2542 2004-04-09 Martin Quinson
2544 - factorize more code between RL and SG in socket creation
2545 - Complete the implementation and tests of:
2547 o file (only in RL, and mainly for debugging)
2549 I lost 3 days to design a portable address resolver, and then decided
2550 that the prototype mainly have to run on my box.
2551 Addressing portability too early may be like optimizing too early :-/
2553 - use gras_init in the Tests instead of the crappy parse_log_opt
2554 (the latter function is removed)
2555 [Conditional execution]
2556 - New functions: gras_if_RL/gras_if_SG (basic support for this)
2557 [Code reorganisation]
2558 - Get rid of libgrasutils.a since it makes more trouble than it solves.
2559 Build examples against the RL library, since there is no way to disable
2560 its creation for now.
2562 For information, the beginning of coding on GRAS was back in june
2563 2003. I guess that every line has been rewritten at least twice since